[john_the_writer]

What if you get arrested because you buy a pride flag? Or if you get killed because you use a service?

What if you get arrested because you sold a train ticket to someone who doesn't have enough "social credit" to buy said train ticket?

[desas]

Then your society has bigger problems than how purchases are carried out.

[rapnie]

And a cashless society helps aggravate these problems.

[mdp2021]

> your society has bigger problems

It does not. A psychically deficient society expresses its "illness"¹ in many different ways, all with the same root.

(¹Both "evil", original sense, and "malfunction", translated sense. 'Illness' is a good term for this context.)