Plenty if you study history and anthropology. How do you think humans lived for millenia before the invention of currency? You do realize thousands of years separate that from advent of trade and long after we settled down to form permanent communities?
So underpaid and overworked entry level laborers aren’t cleaning them to sterile perfection. Oh no. Shocker
Counter point: if the screen is covered, what makes you think the door handle those same hands are touching is sanitary? What about the table and chair you’re sitting at? Other people sit there too, do you really think those tables are getting wiped down after every single patron leaves?
Only in a society that requires cash. They could have just handed people a meal when the walked up and asked for one. there would be no difference except a few executives don’t get their cut.
In a just society these would be allowed to relieve all cashiers from their positions to pursue their passions.
But we must slave away to justify our existence because a few rich fucks don’t want to share and established that mindset as the cornerstone of society.
I just wanted to wail into the void about automation and how our loves could be so much better if people would just lose the chains already.
While this is true, this is severely short sighted and misses the perspective of being impoverished and constantly being unable to make ends meet even after you have cut luxury from your life.