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To add: few supermarkets accept credit cards. Neither does the public railway for short distance travel. Or pretty much anybody else. Might be because we were
by pgeorgi 12y ago
To add: few supermarkets accept credit cards. Neither does the public railway for short distance travel. Or pretty much anybody else.
Might be because we were able to keep the middle man (CC companies) out by having the banks cooperate on electronic cash directly - since the 80s.
Uber is just another such middle man we have no need for (and at 20% commission, they make CC companies look cheap).
- ptaipale 12y agoJust to clarify, I said "credit card" for simplicity but I use my card primarily as a direct-debit card; taxis (and everyone else) accept that here, and have been since 1980's. So the credit card company is not involved.