speaking of the system cheating consumers while telling them they’re actually cheating the system,

an obnoxious bit coin converter machine at this semi-ghetto convenience store. I guarantee you nobody shopping here has any business buying bitcoin, which is precisely why it is here. to give false hope to the hopeless, encourage gambling among the people most at risk from gambling habits, those least likely to be listened to when complaining about what a deliberately exploitative scam this is.

whoa you mean in exchange for my real money i get to pay a fee, be associated with racists terrorists rapists and or kidnappers, AND possibly lose it all to market volatility while the sleazebag I paid can afford to ride it out while absorbing the investment I lost? Where do I sign up???? oh right here in the place where I buy paper towels great.
I would go further and say nobody shopping here has any business shopping here where all the prices are marked up and all the quantities are smaller than at a proper grocery store, meaning the price per-item is higherer, a much longer-term con against people without much purchasing power. in that context bitcoin fits right in so while I am disgusted that it is here I am most definitely not surprised that it is.

thankfully I have not been driving around the person who INSISTED I go to this store since april 2022 however

there has also been one at my local stop and shop store for several years now. Not quite the hopeless dump of that other store but still well below the comfortably wealthy and can afford to throw $10000 into a hole and hope it comes back with friends level.
It momentarily amused me recently when this cardboard sign was added and I thought the art department had decided to give earmuffs to andrew jackson, but upon looking closer I saw it was just edgy glitchy recoloring that happened to have gone red at approximately jackson’s ear zones. I do not understand why you would want to indicate that the device is malfunctioning when encouraging people who already don’t have much money to put their money inside of it and just hope you aren’t lying to them about how great the device is. but plainly they do it anyway; else this misery box wouldn’t be here and eating electricity.

it’s just like going broke in a dream where I can’t read any text because it keeps changing, except I really did lose all my money and the words really are written for me to not ever understand.

whell i am glad one person is comfortable with this arrangement.