{"id":971667,"date":"2025-11-04T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971667"},"modified":"2025-11-04T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:55:34","slug":"%e2%82%b9500-in-cash-hurts-%e2%82%b9500-on-screen-doesnt-and-thats-exactly-how-they-want-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/04\/%e2%82%b9500-in-cash-hurts-%e2%82%b9500-on-screen-doesnt-and-thats-exactly-how-they-want-it\/","title":{"rendered":"\u20b9500 in cash hurts. \u20b9500 on screen doesn\u2019t, and that\u2019s exactly how they want it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a weird truth: \u20b9500 is not always \u20b9500.<br \/>\nAt least, not to your brain.<\/p>\n<p>When you hand over a crisp \u20b9500 note, your brain winces. There\u2019s a small sting, a flicker of regret. But when you scan a QR code or double-tap to pay on UPI, the pain almost vanishes. It feels painless, frictionless, even satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a weird truth: \u20b9500 is not always \u20b9500. At least, not to your brain. When you hand over a crisp \u20b9500 note, your brain winces. There\u2019s a small sting, a flicker of regret. But when you scan a QR code or double-tap to pay on UPI, the pain almost vanishes. It feels painless, frictionless, even satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}