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Re:Anatomy of a credit card rewards program by mym1990 on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:11PM (#39936435)
What is more intense than nobody taking cash, punishment for even having it?
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Re:Anatomy of a credit card rewards program by toomuchtodo on Thursday April 04, 2024 @06:34PM (#39936631)
Your ability to make purchases turned off, with no other means to transact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

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Re:Anatomy of a credit card rewards program by whimsicalism on Thursday April 04, 2024 @07:19PM (#39937035)
as in it is very difficult to find anyone willing to transact in cash for any transaction whatsoever in most chinese cities
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Re:Anatomy of a credit card rewards program by Too on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:09AM (#39950142)
Not even big cards like Visa or Mastercard work everywhere.

Instead you need an app installed on your phone (alipay or wechat), where you transfer cash into the app in advance. All with Chinese as the only language. (From what i heard, there now is a tourist-version of alipay in English. Last time i tried it was mostly Chinese)

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Re:Anatomy of a credit card rewards program by whimsicalism on Saturday April 06, 2024 @11:09PM (#39957841)
honestly it was pretty intuitive even when navigating all in chinese
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