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by alkonaut 896 days ago
I think the solution in all these cases isn't to make sure that everything works without id, without smartphone, with cash etc. It's to ensure everyone has access to technology, id, banks and so on.

Like voting. Yes it's a democracy problem if you have historically made it difficult or less likely for some groups to have ID, to suddenly require it. But it's not a democratic problem to require ID after first ensuring everyone has free and easy access to ID, and actually have the ID.