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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by jstummbillig on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @01:24PM (#46964426)
> I always find it entertaining to hear people try to argue that what these companies do is soooooo difficult and that's why they're valuable. It's just multiple computers keeping a balance.

Roughly nobody argues that part is difficult.

> It's not complicated.

It's very complicated, for the reasons that all complex real world systems are. It's an absolute mess.

> Time to do away with these foreign entities.

I don't really mind the "foreign" part, but it's fairly wild that essential financial infrastructure is privatized, so let's!

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