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What a CASHLESS society REALLY means (links.hackliberty.org)

submitted 5 months ago by c0mmando@links.hackliberty.org to c/privacy@links.hackliberty.org

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[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

26% in a recent poll:

https://layer8.space/@hyakinthos/112554837920009346

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A Mastodon poll with 210 responses is hardly representative.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Why do you think 210 is statistically insignificant? Is there a reason why the central limit theorem does not apply in this case?

If you’re more fixated on the samples coming from Mastodon, can you explain why you might expect cashless proponents to be even fewer in populations outside of Mastodon? IMO, a Mastodon-using population is more likely to embrace individual rights and condemn imbalances of power that favor giant corporations like banks. I believe if the same survey is carried out outside of Mastodon, the 26% will be even bigger, if different.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The same reason someone might think Linux is a wildly popular choice of OS on Lemmy. These communities are very niche.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mastodon is not niche. Mastodon is a diverse community of nerds and low tech people, artistic brains and analytical brains, white collar workers and blue collar workers. A substantial portion of Mastodon is from Reddit refugees. Reddit is no more niche than Facebook.

The greater Mastodon venue who that poll reached lacks right wing conservatives, who tend to stay in their bubble of extremist networks. That does not make Mastodon “niche”. Running the same survey on a right wing Mastodon node might be interesting, but we can see from the linked poll that political affiliation is generally orthoganol on this issue.