Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats

• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You have a legal right to shelter, yes. How is that controversial it’s a human right.

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  • 0x0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The controversial part is that while it’s great and desirable on paper, it’s almost never the case for 100% of the times. Great if it is though.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And it’s also not wanted. A lot of people choose to avoid shelters for a number of reasons.

      Honestly, the requirement for an address to get a bank account is stupid, you should merely have to prove your identity, which can be accomplished with a government ID or perhaps a notorized note from a government agency (i.e. you go to the local health center or a social work office and verify your identity or something).

      If I wanted to, I could easily fake my address being somewhere it’s not. I get a bunch of junk from the previous residents, and there’s really nothing stopping me from putting someone else’s address as my own (my local family does it when they’re between residences). So I honestly don’t see much point to it.

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