Orts #828
China has moved so fast into a cashless society, where everyone pays for everything with a mobile phone, that Chinese newspapers report beggars in major cities have started to place a printout of a QR code in their begging bowls so any passer-by can scan it and use mobile payment apps like Alibaba’s Alipay or Tencent’s WeChat Wallet to contribute to the beggar’s mobile payment account.
— Thomas L. Friedman, in The New York Times, June 7, 2017
There is nowhere in this country [U.S.A.] where someone working a full-time minimum wage job could afford to rent a two-bedroom apartment...
-- Washington Post, June 8, 2017 http://wapo.st/2sJILcF
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an etymological take: http://nyti.ms/2tcmQYb
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