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So I'm sure this exists in other countries too, but in the Netherlands there is this website called "wie betaalt wat", which roughly translates to "who pays wha
by vanderZwan 8y ago
So I'm sure this exists in other countries too, but in the Netherlands there is this website called "wie betaalt wat", which roughly translates to "who pays what/something".
When going out you take turns paying and just keep track of how much you paid. Then at the end of the night (or the next day, or whenever) everyone fills the amount they paid, and once that is done the website calculates how to evenly spread the net cost with the least mount of cash transfers.
Basically, splitting the bill is such an essential part of Dutch culture - even though most people I know are not aware of this actually being called "going Dutch" in English-speaking countries - that we automated it.
[0] https://wiebetaaltwat.nl/about/what https://wiebetaaltwat.nl/about/what
- tanderson92 8y agoMany people use splitwise for this.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoFrom what I gather, we are still struggling to sort this out in the US. My personal opinion is that this practice is directly related in some way to the unusually good track record of women's rights in the Netherlands.
- taurath 8y agoYounger people everywhere do this, especially in non-pub cultures where its not likely that the same group of people will meet up again. In the US its extremely common to split things - only some business meetings, family gatherings or extremely close friends is a group all paid as one, or sometimes one person pays while everyone uses a payment app to pay them back.