No thanks. You seem to be doing the shoveling part.

Maybe bad for tip based wages too. Do tips from cards get taxed?

Would you like any more shovels for that hole, OP?

I can't give money to those people, since in almost every case, it's just a scam. If you want to help homeless people, support local policies that support the homeless, volunteer at a soup kitchen, become a speaker for homelessness issues in your town. Giving them $20 doesn't help them.

And for those wondering, the government does provide phones to homeless people who apply. It's a program that started with Reagan with home phone service, under Obama it applied to cell phones and has seen need applied to smartphones

Yes, but it comes with fees. 2.6% + $.10

So if someone gives you $10, you get $9.64

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Another issue would be low income and “unlawfully” employed individuals who take cash as payment. I’m not talking about dealers, but perhaps immigrants and those getting paid in cash for their labor.

Access to digital currency is also a trick. If you live in a large metropolitan city, you have access to internet, banks, ATMs; but if you live out of town or in the country, or maybe just don’t have reliable transportation and internet, you are also screwed.

Bad bot.

You can get a card reader for free?

Who is we?

This reads like a copy and pasted PR statement from a bank’s website.

Many homeless people take contactless payment, these days. Some even put it on their signs.

Anyone with a smartphone can do it. Few people don't have smartphones, anymore. Most people don't even carry cash.

You can literally get a Square dongle for free, to swipe cards.

Homeless people jumped on Cash App faster than dealers.

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We have many other charactheristics, like sweating that we take for granted

That’s the most North Dakota sport I’ve ever heard of!

They do break their legs very easily.

The strength of a bone is proportional to its cross-sectional area. The loading on a bone is proportional to the mass (volume) of the animal. Volume increases more rapidly than cross-sectional area when the animal gets bigger.

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Yep

Then explain horses.

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I saw a video of a female horse in heat kill the male that was approaching from behind with a kick straight to the skull. Was really sad to see actually. Maybe best not made into a sport.

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LOL - Our only biological advantages are our huge frontal lobes and opposable thumbs. Turns out, those are really good advantages.

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Since OP is a bit daffy, deer, kangaroos have as powerful if not more so, can they do a roundhouse? No but few animals would be able to given that bipedalism isn't common. Then again there are animals that can exert as much force as a fired .22 round and they are smaller than us, so I don't know how OP would interpret those animals in his comparison.