r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Getatbay • 10d ago

Video EU has created a system that bypasses payment processing services like visa or mastercard

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u/Glittering-Coyote140 10d ago

Good riddance. Can't wait for this to become the norm. The United States cannot be trusted for a God damn thing anymore.

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u/mongojob 10d ago

I mean our companies can be trusted to bleed everyone fucking dry

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u/Glittering-Coyote140 9d ago

Oh, that goes for ours too.

We just cannot allow every transaction to bounce from buyer --> to US server --> to seller anymore. Sooner or later that's going to be used as leverage against us, and we need to build safeguards across so many sectors, digital transactions being just one such sector.

Everything has been thrown to the wind nowadays. Uncertainty has seldom been as palpable as it is today. It's a sad reality we live in, but it must be faced head-on. We cannot afford to wait for tomorrow, and cross our fingers, and hope that the next person you vote for is a reasonable human being, and not a sociopath.

That would be reckless and naïve of us.

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u/XadAeon 10d ago

As an American, I knew that...