Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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The problem with answering this question is that on the consumer side you don't really make this choice. The businesses that you pay for things at make this choice.
Visa and Mastercard are payment networks. The businesses that accept them are renting access to those payment networks, because ultimately accepting those forms of payment helps them make more money.
There are other options for payment systems, but for you to use them requires that the business you want to buy something at accepts those options.
Some businesses offer more options though, and when they do you can choose to use those options.
Er, yes, that's my point? It's up to the business to make that choice.
My point is, hardly anyone goes out of their way to use other payment options, and that's one reason why most businesses don't bother with them, so this is also a choice of the consumer. Of course there's also little incentive for the consumer not to bother, but that's kind of just the deal with catch 22 network effects, someone has to take the leap to using something else.
Here in the U.S. at CVS pharmacy, I've seen Venmo option on their self check outs.