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by navigate8310 16 days ago
This is implied in an authoritarian country like India.

However, the Government is in a fix. Almost the complete stack is subsidized by the Government. This led to an explosive adoption growth for merchants as there is no MDR and payers for ease of transaction as they don't need to carry hard currency anymore. This has enabled the Government gaining complete insights into spending and earning patterns. Withdrawing this massive subsidy will again lead to people using cash. So in order to prevent "terrorism" they will subsidize for the foreseeable future.

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India is not an authoritarian country ffs
It’s not, and calling it so is wrong.

But it is a country with extremely illiberal capital controls and a history of questionable enforcement due to perceived corruption.

It’s such a good payment system it’s overcome these concerns in large part, but they are reasonable concerns to have.

lol