[jareau]

> Why is the USA one of the only first-world countries that have such prevalent usage of cheques

I'm actually thinking about writing a blog post explaining my theory behind why this is the case. Would that be interesting?

tl;dr of my theory: geographic size and decentralized gov't in the US allowed a paper cheque system to outlive other countries'

[beedogs]

Also probably the reason slavery lasted so much longer past the end of the civil war in parts of the South. Interesting parallel I guess, as paper checks seem just about as antebellum to me now.