knightly

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago

Not when you're a government.

Mandate that payment processors have to support the state debit network and you'll be on half the terminals in the country in under a year.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If you're aware of what a back-of-card network is then you should understand how transformative a state-backed zero-fee interchange would be.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

And credit unions offer accounts with lower fees and higher interest rates than commercial banks, whose only advantages are having more branch offices, ATMs, and a bigger marketing budget.

Postal banking solves this deficit by making every post office a branch of the national credit union.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 4 days ago (6 children)

What service? Debit cards for postal banking accounts?

It absolutely would be because for-profit banks would have to compete with non-profit government services..

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Petite bourgeoise, the managerial class who wield structural control over the labor power of others but lack sufficient capital to simply hire someone else to maintain that structure for them. Same as gang members, small business owners, corporate middle-managers, etc.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 5 days ago

Cultivate a fascination for neologism and you can be the old person that correctly and unironically uses modern slang to the horror of young people everywhere~

Become the reason that kids have to find new words for things all over again and you'll never run out of new material~

[–] knightly@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago (8 children)

No need for crypto, there are plans on deck for a postal banking system that already include debit card service (and a government union for the workers who have to maintain the infrastructure). That's pretty much the end of the credit card mafia if it comes to pass.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 30 points 6 days ago

*with or without

FTFY

[–] knightly@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There can be more than two categories.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter, the Democrats are killing the Republican party by absorbing its "moderates" and becoming the new right-wing.

They don't need lefties anymore.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Cops aren't workers, they're the enforcers of Capital.

The only surprising thing here is that this person thought they could exercise copfriend privileges against an actual cop without getting some kind of blowback. XD

[–] knightly@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't they fall into Crypto BS?

 
 
 

Specifically, ones that aren't chock-full of mobile game enshittification and in-app purchases?

I don't mind paying for games but I'm sick and tired of predatory monetization schemes and will immediately uninstall a game if the tutorial insists on showing me a store page.

 
 
 
 
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