it was barely thirty years ago when small businesses didnt always accept every credit card. i remember one time as a kid i used my little bank card at a gift shop and the lady used that ancient scrubby thing to mark that weird multilayer receipt paper
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ByteJunk@lemmy.world 22 hours agoTo this day, I don’t understand why Visa or MasterCard are necessary. If the banks can’t create a global, shared way of processing payments, then the governments should step in and do it for them.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
toothpaste_ostrich@feddit.nl 22 hours ago
I imagine that’s because that would be against the interests of the owners of those companies. Which presumably have some power in the world, being practically internationally successful banks.
Tldr; money.