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by jxjdjr 4362 days ago
But they shouldn't have skin in the game. Treating people like children without the capacity to make grown up decisions will only encourage this type of behaviour. Whytf do we need something like charge back?! To me it just seems like a poor justification for having a centralised router of money.
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Try setting up a project that only takes Western Union cash transfer or bitcoin as payment.

People like the safety net of chargeback and it encourages them to fund you.

We need chargebacks because there are scammers out there and people get themselves into trouble with credit, so we made the democratic decision to require that mechanism.