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The Rise of Whatever

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631 points cratermoon | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 04:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.611s | source
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dalemhurley ◴[04 Jul 25 07:29 UTC] No.44462040[source]▶
> "live in some futuristic utopia like the EU where banks consider "send money to people" to be core functionality. But here in the good ol' U S of A, where material progress requires significant amounts of kicking and screaming, you had PayPal."

I remember when PayPal came to Australia, I was so confused by it as I could just send money via internet banking. Then they tried to lobby the government to make our banking system worse so they could compete, much like Uber.

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1. martin-t ◴[06 Jul 25 22:30 UTC] No.44484703[source]▶
I hate that companies try this. They should pay massive fines and execs should go to prison for this.

This is not rhetorical - if you (try to) make the life of literally millions of people worse in a small way, the amount of time and money wasted by them should be calculated and used to determine the punishment.

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2. dalemhurley ◴[11 Jul 25 23:02 UTC] No.44537675[source]▶
Unfortunately this is a by-product of capitalism and lobbying