Imagine a world where paying with cash (legal tender) is an act of revolution. Oh wait ... https://nostr.build/av/870d4dd1e110b2671b8b2496c6e1e6776a72a4bff2fe25f3d68dca487e9e9ef4.mov
Legal tender is about a currency being valid and sufficient for the payment of **debts**. It does not apply to spot exchange.
There is no economic, ethical, or legal justification for what he did. He stole strawberries and left an ungratuitous gift in stead. Asshole move. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whwyo5Vi4RA
If the merchant doesn't want dirty coins, then so be it.
The point you are trying to make is the actual issue here. This system is total bullshit. Mandating a currency on people and then leaving elderly who saved in cash unable to adapt is theft. What are they going to do with those shitty (nearly worthless individually) small coins that many of us hate?
Moreover the disgusting paradox is that supermarkets like Tesco price things 1.99 and if you give them 2 pounds they either steal the penny or at best dump on you that worthless crap of 1 penny coins so that in a few years they will refuse to accept it when you try to pay with it.
We know that the central bank considers legal tender a currency that has to be accepted for repayment of debts but the point is exactly this here, why do we have to accept anything that a government tries to impose when the currency they will offer and try to mandate on us is not going to be efficient for us when we will buy a pack of strawberries?
Just because the system is bullshit doesn't give you the right to steal from merchants.
Agreed, these type of people are needed to make a very loud point. If I did something like that I would have to fight the security guard and probably get in trouble, old man + man on a wheelchair is definitely looking non aggressive so they walk away.
