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[–] 171 points 3 months ago (42 children)

Im not about to trust a single point of failure with everything. If my phone breaks I want alternative options

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (26 children)

    I have 10€ in my phones battery compartment, because sometimes I leave my wallet at home, or forget it.

    And visa has outages sometimes...

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (15 children)

    It became a habit for me whenever I am leaving home. Phone and hand kerchief in right pocket, wallet and keys in left pocket. If any item is missing I feel an absolute dread that can't be ignored. Sometimes dap and iem in right and left pocket when it's one of those trips.

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    [–] 117 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    that's dumb. I have a wallet and so does everyone else I know in my age. Im gEn Z. these stupid generational labels make no sense

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    [–] 85 points 3 months ago (55 children)

    Uhm... on top of not having my phone as my single payment method... where should I carry my id and driver's license and medical card if not in the wallet? Should I carry them loose in the pocket? Or in my bag? Why? That's so unconvenient and in the long term ends up damaging them.

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    [–] 75 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I strayed into not taking a wallet out with me briefly, then I realised my life shouldn't rely on Apple or Android (or my (lack of) ability to charge devices).

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    [–] 53 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Paying with cash is the most private method. I hope it stays.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You already can't in so many places. I thought it was required to accept cash, but apparently that's only for paying the government.

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    [–] 45 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I work retail and the number of phones/watches that have just failed to work means I'm never replacing my card. Sure, they could just be idiots who don't know how to use it like the people who can't use cards, but card just works.

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    [–] 42 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I love how millennial has become the new code for old. Gen X has been skipped again. As always.

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    [–] 37 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    My wallet isn’t owned by a tech conglomerate that has access and admin privileges to everything inside of it. Also, I just don’t want my phone to be everything, especially my I.D.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah but inside it is $3.50

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    Nah. It's just cards. I haven't touched cash in a decade, but I do have way too many cards I need that can't go in my phone.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    But... How do they pay for the finest black market goods if they don't have a wallet to carry cash around?

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    [–] 29 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Us millennials must age gracefully if youth can't recognize our age until they ask for our wallet

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    [–] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I left my wallet on my work desk and a youngling helped walk me through using my phone to pay for my drive-through coffee order. I felt so cool and high tech.

    Of course, when we got to "turn on NFC" the youngling asked what NFC was. I think I told him it was like Bluetooth and let the phone talk to the card reader.

    My older "forgot my wallet" technique was to make an online order for pick up and enter my organically memorized credit card information into the online form.

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    [–] 26 points 3 months ago

    Let me break out my checkbook in the grocery store line and watch their souls leave their bodies.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    Do kids in the US not have wallets? I don’t think I know anyone who doesn’t have one (in Germany)

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    [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Enjoy Google knowing all your transactions! angrily waves cane

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    People keep talking about cash but I have a bunch of other shit in my wallet too, like ID card, insurance cards, bank card, several coupons, a bottle return receipt, cancer screening documentation, antiFamily card, pension card, organ donor card, and I don't even have a driver's license or that would go in there too.

    Where do the youngsters keep all that?

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Idk What this people could be on about, I'm 22 and like, I have a wallet and a miniwallet that detaches from the main wallet.

    Paper cash I usually don't have, but like cards and stuff.

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    [–] 22 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Admittedly, I only have a couple of gen Z friends, but they both have the biggest wallets of anyone I know.

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    [–] 17 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    I've worked in IT support/Security for too long to have any of my cards just a short nfc tap away from being used/stolen from.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I feel personally attacked, but I can block it with my thick wallet.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Police, show us you ID or got to prison.

    Oh you see I'm a gen z...

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