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Does anyone understand why cash is so common in Germany (or why cards are so rarely accepted)? I didn't expect it from a modern first world European country.
by crummy 8y ago
Does anyone understand why cash is so common in Germany (or why cards are so rarely accepted)? I didn't expect it from a modern first world European country.
- TulliusCicero 8y agoGermans are sort of reticent or skeptical about a lot of modern consumer technology, I've found.
- chopin 8y agoMaybe they are just more aware of the associated risks?
- kmlx 8y agono, unfortunately most eastern european societies are completely broken due to USSR influences. it was a wide-held belief in eastern europe that the state knows everything about you and that you should hide your daily life from everyone, as everyone could be a spy working for the government. this is what historically underlines gdpr and the whole privacy movement in europe: a deep-seated mistrust of everything and everyone. even to this day most european societies that fell behind the iron curtain are still broken 30 years after it came down.
- krageon 8y agoHow is it broken to assume you need to be privacy conscious, even when it comes to the state?
- dahfizz 8y agoI think what OP describes is closer to 'widespread paranoia crippling the economy' than being 'privacy conscious'
- blablabla007 8y agoMost of the west is broken due to their believe in state. And if Democrats have their way in US it will be the same (which is particularly ironic in the time of Trump to claim government is the solution).
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- dest 8y agoMemory of the stasi?