• Eezyville@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    I’m all for Europe doing their own thing. I’m an American and even I hate seeing the US use it’s position for bully politics. No citizen of any other country should ever thing that an American company or govt will treat them with dignity or respect. Look at how we treat each other.

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      10 hours ago

      Why do Visa and MasterCard exist? The middleman that jacks up the price while offering the end user nothing? Thanks capitalism.

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        10 hours ago

        Before smartphones, credit cards were the cashless option.

        Now that we all have a more than capable payment terminal in our pocket, Visa and mastercard are obsolete

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          9 hours ago

          Sorta. Whomever does payment on your behalf has to be willing to extend credit for an immediate transaction while the very slow process of exchanging money happens at a delay. This is especially so if the transactions are international. I truly wonder how the phone with just an ordinary bank account does this. Is it Google/Apple who extend credit? If so, is that better?