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Mastercard/Visa’s control (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 7 points 10 months ago* (9 children)

This kinda requires having a heavily consolidated convenience store industry with a lot of locations. Japan has both of these the US not so much. Urban sprawl, a physically larger country, and a culture of not using convenience stores as much kinda make this hard. Also said stores would likely need to register AML and KYC controls.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Would post office work better for US?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Maybe. The lines in my local post office are always long but they do exist. I can't come up with an easy way for the Comstock act to prohibit it being used for adult material but then again I don't work for the "Heritage" Foundation.

    Then again Congress likes it's puritannical laws and would need to create such a service.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    At first, I was only thinking about the ubiquity of post offices and that they already reach rural areas. But the government aspect does add a bit more too. Feels like it's official to use government currency in a government building instead of a local convenience store.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    People do heavily use gas stations which are about the same thing

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    True. This is one thing we still need to buy in person, and can't have delivered, so gas stations exist even in the smallest towns.

    The other place, of course, is grocery stores. I can pay in cash at the self-checkout in Walmart, and the machines scan barcodes. So, that's another option.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    It also requires not being dominated by people who think lack of options is a feature they can exploit and would happily destroy society if it meant that whatever was left was more dependent on them (partially to profit from it, partially to hold the keys to control who can access it and how).

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