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Pretty much every other developed country has solved this problem without having to transact in digital lottery tickets.

• xethos 11mo ago
  Yes and no. I can eTransfer in Canada... to a limit of $2,000 CAD daily. Rent is $2,100, so parent's point stands. I could upgrade my cellphone and use Google Play Services, allowing up to $10,000 CAD daily, but I have no intention of doing so. I think it's messed up to tie my financial and digital sovereignty to a foreign corporation, I don't appreciate the hit to battery life, privacy, and the pre-requisite bump in hardware to run GApps, and I simply don't want to end up on the spending treadmill for new cellphones. Canada "solved" this, but the limits haven't kept up with inflation or life in general
  • Nursie 11mo ago
    In Australia I can send $20k. In the UK it was similar. These concerns seem very weird to me.
    • xethos 11mo ago
      They kind of are, I'll immediately cop to that. I don't think it's that odd to say the constant upgrade treadmill is expensive though. I also don't appreciate gating features of our society behind smartphone ownership. My specific concerns are odd. Not appreciating smartphone requirements for life feels more mainstream (if only marginally)
      • Nursie 11mo ago
        I’m not tied to a smartphone to do those things in the UK or Aus either. Different geographies work differently I guess. In Brazil there’s an entire payment network (pix) that is centrally run, free and hugely popular.