Im not about to trust a single point of failure with everything. If my phone breaks I want alternative options
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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
This is a pretty old meme. I can't remember the context anymore
Maybe marketing for phone payments
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.
I barely keep my phone on me, period. I hate the thing.
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).
Paying with cash is the most private method. I hope it stays.
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.
Cash is required to be accepted to clear a debt.
Cash is not required to be accepted to make a purchase.
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.
I love how millennial has become the new code for old. Gen X has been skipped again. As always.
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.
Yeah but inside it is $3.50
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.
Same here. I can go with only a phone but then I would miss:
- my ID card (mandatory here)
- my driver's license card (mandatory when driving)
- my health insurance card
- my debit card (for when wireless payment isn't available)
- my credit card
- my public transport card
>it was about that time that i noticed @OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world was about 500 feet tall and from the paleolithic era
But... How do they pay for the finest black market goods if they don't have a wallet to carry cash around?
I've paid for drugs at festivals with card because the dealer had an iZettle
Us millennials must age gracefully if youth can't recognize our age until they ask for our wallet
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.
Let me break out my checkbook in the grocery store line and watch their souls leave their bodies.
Do kids in the US not have wallets? I don’t think I know anyone who doesn’t have one (in Germany)
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?
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.
Admittedly, I only have a couple of gen Z friends, but they both have the biggest wallets of anyone I know.
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.
I feel personally attacked, but I can block it with my thick wallet.
Police, show us you ID or got to prison.
Oh you see I'm a gen z...

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