Re:People don't want to run their own bank
by quanticle on Friday February 04, 2022 @01:14PM
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Increasingly there isn't as banks, always looking to cut costs, pare back the number of branches they have, the number of staff at those branches, and make the phone experience worse in order to drive customers to their websites.
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Re:People don't want to run their own bank
by ls15 on Saturday February 05, 2022 @03:16AM
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Increasingly, yes. Unfortunately. However, there are different cash cultures in different countries. Not every country is like Sweden where physical cash is practically unheard of.
In Germany there is an online service called barzahlen/viacash (they are renaming) https://www.barzahlen.de that allows people to pay cash for online shopping. After checkout, the buyer gets a code that can be scanned by cashiers in certain drugstores and supermarkets, so buyer can pay in cash.
I use cash where possible in order to avoid leaving a massive data trail that inevitably will get exploited. It is a method of self-defense for me.