U.S. court: Dollars discriminate against blind - U.S. business- msnbc.com
OK. Don't hate me for my opinion but.....Your money could be changing in the not so near future. Hooray progress. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against blind people, in fact, they are to be admired. That being said, seriously, WTF?? Money is discriminatory? Are you kidding me??? Yeah it sucks that money is the same size... correction it sucks if your blind, that money is the same size, but for the rest of us, its great. I deal with money all the time and personally I like how nice and neat it stacks, I like how symmetrical money is, why does it need to change?
So billions should be spent retrofitting vending machines? How about those cash counters at the bank thats money well spent or should I say flushed down the toilet. Those super awesome weighing money counters, yeah they all need to be programmed to weigh the new money since shearing the size down changes the weight of all the paper paper money. And what the hell about all the money currently in circulation? Should businesses run by the blind be able to deny currency because it's not this new standardized size? Trillions of dollars should be just "pulled" out of circulation? and who's going to do this? Yeah that's a lot to consider now isn't it? I'm just one person but all that just popped into my head and this has been a 6 year court battle?!?
Besides, disabilities are disabilities because you can't do everything everyone else does. No one says you cant have cash if your blind, hell, my cats can have money if they want, but they cant decipher 1's from 5's (and they complain they can't flip through it because they don't have opposable thumbs) so they rather I pay them in food and shelter. Roads are discriminatory too you know, you have to look where your going. Blind people aren't hired as money handlers? Neither are stupid people, but they don't complain (maybe because they're too stupid to, but hey they don't). Not that I'm sexist but theirs things some women shouldn't do and it's not discriminatory it's just common sense. An example....
Ninety pound Buffy, who's cute as a button, smart as a whip, blond and sociable shouldn't be a firefighter who runs into a burning building to save me. Sorry Buffy, you may be a great person, you may be beautiful, you may have passed all your theoretical tests without breaking a sweat but You.Cannot.Lift.Me. I weigh 3 times what you do and I'm unconscious and time is of the essence and most importantly, I don't feel too keen about dying today. No I want Jack McDrinksalot, he's like 250 pounds and can bench press twice his body weight, I want Mr. McDrinksalot to rush in drag my passed out carcass from wherever I am, throw me over his shoulder and get me out of there! And just to be clear, same scenario with another guy: I also dont want 85 pound Irwin who Buffy beat up the night before in there trying to calculate the best way to get me to safety either.
See, the problem isn't dollar bills, they are great for most activities and yeah other countries have money of varying sizes and such, but thats them. Once again the government seeks to punish the many for the sake of the few, and yes, I'm sorry but the blind people don't outnumber the rest of us who don't have a problem with currency in its current form. If you really wanna effect change, how about subsidizing and lowering the cost of electronic verbal money counters for the blind? Oh, hey here's an idea make it mandatory ALL stores use debit and credit card readers. There are places in the US I still cant use my debit card, are you freakin' kidding me? There's totally no excuse for that other then pure laziness on the part of the business owner. If I can open and operate an online business and accept credit, debit, AND paypal cards, then there's no reason a real brick and mortar business can't do the same thing. Personally, I find it annoying as hell that people like to go after the most ridiculous possibility first. Yes , cash sucks at times but when its not a problem for all blind people and there are literally at least a dozen alternatives, why the hell punish everyone?
2 comments:
Um, dude? Think outside the box a little. For example, Canadian dollar bills have one or two braille cells in the corner, are different colors, and are still the same size and thus, stackable and uniform. I don't think your poor little sensitivities will be punished.
"Think outside the box a little"? My sensibilities? Au contraire my flippant commenter, I'm the furthest thing from sensitive. In fact, I was making a general observation. Your the one that seems sensitive by your sad attempt at snarkiness. Let me be clear about your point. "Canadian dollar bills have one or two braille cells in the corner, are different colors, and are still the same size and thus, stackable and uniform." Then perhaps they should move to Canada where there is a method in place such as you describe. Look, no one's saying exclude blind people and in point of fact many blind individuals are quite independent and with that being the case why should I or anyone else have to change how I do things? In the article linked to the post even blind people say they don't see a point (no pun intended) in changing everything. And again, need I point out, there are methods and equipment that exist to assist the visually impaired. Debit/Credit cards, coin and bill counters, and the ink on the bills that many blind people use to count their money physically. The sheer amount of money to change/replace equipment already in place is staggering to consider and precludes the thought of changing our defacto method of payment. However, I encourage you to show your support for changing the default currency of our nation by burning all your cash on hand in protest. So, no, I dont need to think outside the box, the "box" as you put it, isn't the problem, it's people complaining for the sake of complaining. You madam, to use your own snarkiness to retort are the reason they put "Caution:Hot!" on coffee.
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