> Governments aren't competent enough to do tech stuff well and they would never make something that works in a different country as well as credit cards do, bu

> Governments aren't competent enough to do tech stuff well and they would never make something that works in a different country as well as credit cards do, but still. There's some counterexamples: Postal systems, GPS and the internet were started as government projects that now interoperate and cover almost the whole globe.