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Cheques being phased out in Australia by 2030
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TimFox:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 09, 2023, 04:51:57 pm ---
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--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 09, 2023, 09:11:19 am ---I hope you guys can still pay in salt or silver coins. I mean, do the bad government want to get rid of directly exchanging donkeys for goods? Can you still use seashells though, right?

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Clearly you are young. I presume you are going to avoid becoming old.

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Clearly I was born in a soviet occupied country, where cheque usage was 0.00% and if you tried using it after 1989 everyone just assumed that you want to scam them.

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You are avoiding the point. We noticed.

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Wait, your point is that old people cannot learn how to use anything else? That went totally over my head. Why?
Because I'm coming from a country, where nobody is using cheque, and we somehow manage.

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And thus it follows that the rest of us must stop using checks, as well, regardless of our own preferences.
Bud:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 09, 2023, 09:11:19 am ---I hope you guys can still pay in salt or silver coins. I mean, do the bad government want to get rid of directly exchanging donkeys for goods? Can you still use seashells though, right?

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You better sharpen your skills in trading donkeys for goods, as this is where the world is going, if you have not noticed yet.
tszaboo:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on October 09, 2023, 05:31:53 pm ---Don't be a twat!

As you will find - if you are lucky - the older you get the more difficult it is to take on radically new concepts.

My father, who had a DSc (i.e. >>PhD) in two phase flow and fluid dynamics, never really got to grips with the internet and web.

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I think you underestimate the elderly. They are really resourceful when they actually want to do something - or when they are forced to.


--- Quote from: TimFox on October 09, 2023, 05:51:48 pm ---And thus it follows that the rest of us must stop using checks, as well, regardless of our own preferences.

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Do you live in Australia? Am I forcing you to do something? No?
Do whatever you please, but please don't be surprized when you get mockery for it from the people who send URLs or QR codes and get their payment in less than a minute.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: tszaboo on October 09, 2023, 08:47:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on October 09, 2023, 05:31:53 pm ---Don't be a twat!

As you will find - if you are lucky - the older you get the more difficult it is to take on radically new concepts.

My father, who had a DSc (i.e. >>PhD) in two phase flow and fluid dynamics, never really got to grips with the internet and web.

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I think you underestimate the elderly. They are really resourceful when they actually want to do something - or when they are forced to.

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That's no more than a convenient rationalisation of your dismissive attitude (that you conveniently snipped).

How old are you?

What is your definition of elderly? 90, 80, 70, 60, 50, 40, 30?

What experience do you personally have of people from an earlier generation  and their capability?
AndyBeez:
I observed today in my local store queue how I was the only one NOT paying with a smart phone or an Apple Watch.
Contactless payment using a real plastic card is becoming a minority option. The little old lady in front of me had an iPhone.
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