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Certain cards are very popular with certain demographics.

I would not do something as stupid using cards to discriminate pricing.

Now of course, we live in a society where the courts would never actually make that link, so you can argue I'd be a bad leader leaving money on the table like that...

But I'd say that's more a problem with our system than anything.



I'm pretty sure it is more than that. I mentioned in a comment below this one that they probably use my destinations as a proxy to asses my income and how much I'm willing to pay for a ride


Your legal case would pretty fast turn into bizarre hate speech:

”They’re charging people using the costco mastercard more!”

”Yeah, and?”

”Well, everyone knows that the jews love costco, and you can’t discriminate against an ethnic minority!”


Why?

Cash app targets underbanked people... guess what demographics are underbanked: https://www.bcg.com/publications/2021/unbanked-and-underbank...

So guess who they market heavily to: https://trapital.co/2020/03/18/how-hip-hop-helped-cash-app-g...

It's not racist, but it does make people look at uncomfortable truths about equality...




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