If he can't access his account, how does he know nobody has paid him? Somebody could have walked by, made a mental note of his Venmo username, and paid him a few minutes later.
The article’s tdlr reads:
As fewer people carry cash, vendors, street performers and people experiencing homelessness and unemployment are at a disadvantage.
New York is the only major metro where I have seen a significant cash advantage as of late. (Feel somewhat qualified having spent months in Chicago, New Orleans, Seattle, Austin, Asheville, Savannah, and Atlanta over the last five years).
Cash discount at every gas station and across thousands of bodegas across the city.
"It's thirteen hundred with tax - if you got cash I can take a hundred off"
There are still a shit ton of cash only establishments. Institutional spots and then cheap places too.