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Mastercard/Visa’s control (thelemmy.club)
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[-] hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 3 months ago

Recently visited a country where cash is very much preferred and it was such a breath of fresh air. I thought it would be annoying to have to keep up with the spare change and what not but it was fine and actually felt pretty good. I've since started using cash a lot more at home.

[-] 87Six@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago

Which country was it?

[-] hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

Greece

[-] djdarren@piefed.social 12 points 3 months ago

Having visited Greece (well, Corfu) a number of times, and as much as I love the place and the people, the primary reason they prefer cash is because they're not big fans of paying taxes.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

Didn't they go through a whole thing where other countries were imposing shit on them to force repayments of national debt? Maybe understandable then that tax evasion is popular if a lot of what is paid in taxes isn't going towards improvements to your own country.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago

Well if they dislike taxes, they probably hate transaction fees even more.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

It might have had something to do with people waiting in line to withdraw 60 euros too.

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