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Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant

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666 points jcartw | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 10:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nirui ◴[08 Apr 25 13:55 UTC] No.43621834[source]▶
I'm thinking, maybe controversially, centralized national payment service like this should be government-run based on my experience with Alipay which is a digital payment service in China.

Due to it's commercial origin, Alipay is filled with unwanted ads and traps. Almost every time I made a payment with it, a pop up prompts me to enlist their Ant Financial LOAN service either now, or being prompted for the same question again 30 days later (yep, not Yes or No, but Now or Later). It's just fucking ridiculous, I don't need a LOAN for a $400 projector, and I don't need a LOAN for a $4 hair cut (Xi should probably do something about it, really).

I'm glad that at least people of Brazil don't have to suffer that kind of shit. At least their government-run program is better scrutinized and boring, thus more dependable, that's a good thing in my eyes.

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xzjis ◴[08 Apr 25 23:47 UTC] No.43627573[source]▶
That's only controversial in the USA I guess. Here in France we know for a fact that government-run services are better than privately owned ones.
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hammock ◴[09 Apr 25 00:53 UTC] No.43627906[source]▶
Says the national from a country that’s had at least 12 different government orders in its time, more than any other G20.

You really like government, you just can’t figure out what it ought to be or how to keep it.

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1. hwillis ◴[09 Apr 25 13:29 UTC] No.43631846[source]▶
As if Biden and Trump would not have been replaced at multiple points in their regimes, if the US had a mechanism for it? The trains kept running in France. Sounds like a system that is both more responsive and more stable.