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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by lobocinza on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:18PM (#48216592)
To be fair both are publicly traded and owning shares would give you voting rights.
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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by brnt on Thursday May 21, 2026 @02:42AM (#48218767)
Point is: traded companies function like a democracy in which money is a vote, which is the opposite of democracy.
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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by cuteboy19 on Saturday May 23, 2026 @04:29AM (#48245884)
this doesn’t sound reassuring. there is not a nationality test on buying shares
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