[bitmapbrother]

>Oh you're so funny. As opposed to the US where people overpay for sub-standard local technology?

That's so cute. Does your high income tax pay for all of that above standard local technology?

>People in the US still use cheques. And they have to pay (a lot) to print those.

Anecdotal, but I've rarely seen anyone pay by cheque.

>Chip cards? No, let's use our fraud-prone magnetic stripe cards.

Yes, because chip cards are so infallible.

>It's cheaper for me to call the US using an MVNO from Europe than picking up a phone and calling the US from within with a pre-paid cell phone there.

Surprising. Care to list some prices?

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> Does your high income tax pay for all of that above standard local technology?

GSM is an example.

My beef with cheques is not that they are barely used, but that they're the only solution sometimes, like some B2B payments, or high ticket purchases.

And I pay 1c per minute + .15c for a call to the US. And 5€ per month gets me 5Gb