🏦 Finance is weird
Credit cards🔗
One thing I don’t get is credit cards. Like why would I borrow money from a bank if I have money myself? Even if I don’t have money I could just get a regular credit. Maybe because banks are giving neat premiums to credit card people? That’s pretty evil. They’re locking you into spending money you don’t have.
Also, (I’m kind of conflicted on this one) how is interest on credit allowed? It’s like letting a bank owe you money you didn’t take from them. Someone said to me that interest on credit exists because
Who pays the guy for his time ?
Another reason for interest would be a higher incentive to pay back I guess.
Update from : Hmm, if there would be no interest on credit then no one would have the incentive to lend money.
VISA, Mastercard, … and why cryptocurrencies are superior🔗
Update from : I still think that financial institutions like (central) banks or credit/debit card companies hold too much control over the world's finance and can for example deny people accounts or deny transactions. However, while the idea of cryptocurrencies as a decentralized means of finance is great, currently a cryptocurrency transaction consumes way more energy than the one of the centralized finance system. At a large scale this fuels climate change though enormous power consumption (Power is often generated via fossil fuels.). In order for cryptocurrency to become a viable alternative it not only has to overcome that by somehow lowering the the power consumption per transaction, it also needs great adoption so you can actually use it and so that it becomes stable.
Why would you trust these companies with processing your payments? What if their services are offline? They don’t open source their server software because anyone could just copy them I guess. But how do you know what is running on the servers? It is like a black box. I’d much rather like to pay with a hardware or software crypto wallet. If I choose the right stable cryptocurrency I can be anonymous and sure that no single entity has control over all of the world’s finance because cryptocurrencies are mostly decentralized, meaning the computers processing payments aren’t in a single location owned by a single entity. With crypto I also know that for cryptocurrencies to be decentralized their code has to be free so anyone can run a server.
Unfortunately cryptocurrencies are kind of a bandaid at the moment because you need websites like BlockFi or Coinbase to exchange USD for example into a cryptocurrency.