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This is Germany, my friend. :)

Personally I hate carrying cash. It's bulky and inconvenient and I prefer to swipe my phone and be done with it. Happy for the surcharge if there is one.

I don't care about personal convenience. (I'm well aware some people find handling cash hard and for them cards obviously make sense.) I prefer cash because it's not instant data collection, doesn't feed international payment system companies like PayPal that cream something off every transaction, and is lower-tech.

I think Germany has a pretty large cash-in-hand shadow economy.

Are there any countries that don't?

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/united-jet-loses-wheel-after-takeoff-bloomberg-news-reports-2024-07-08/

Guess the airplane manufacturer.

I don't care about personal convenience

I mean, that's exactly the backwards part about much of German society.

I only know of France and UK and in France cash in hand is frowned upon as employing clandestine people means heavy fines for the employer for not paying the correct taxes. While the UK seems to blame the person and not the employer.

Gave up long ago when Germans went to South America to avoid the immigrants. Remember the Nazis doing the same, after being evicted from Europe and enjoying fake passports

Tbf I haven't been in 5yrs so there's every chance their banking system has advanced to European 2010 levels.

Obviously there were some places where it was more evident and they had the wireless tablets. But even in major New York sporting venues it was easier to pay cash and you felt like they'd be better able to accept cheques than cards.

Tfb there are very few tax mitigation strategies available to German higher rate tax payers.

Gave up long ago when Germans went to South America to become the immigrants.

Maybe a bit more accurate

Freibad?

Yes, Sommerbad Kreuzberg.

I remember some American client trying to convince me how the American banking system was so much superior to the rest of the world. He faltered a bit at explaining exactly why a signature was better than chip and pin.

Apple/Google pay does seem to have driven the US in catching up though.

The simple answer is that, until relatively recently, the cost to implement chip and pin in the US was higher than the cost of the fraud it was meant to prevent.

James Dyson welcomes the Labour government with a boost ... to the unemployment figures

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You are accurate, does that count as ironic? The people escaping immigrants to become that.

Does he still trade on the British aspect of his "brand" we need some sort of appellation controlle

France even has an "easy" way to pay people for work which then sorts out social taxes etc so they don't need an accountant. Lots of people I know use it for "casual" workers (everything from cleaners to music teachers and handy-people as long as they're self-employed without a company).

James Dyson, Brexitier!

Probably now costs European customers to much to import from UK….classic A-hole.

The new Labour government - a shot in the arm for the work-shy:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jul/10/four-day-week-campaign-to-launch-pilot-looking-at-flexible-working

I've been 4 days a week for 3 years - not going back to full time if I can avoid it. I'm on 0.8 pro rata pay though - your standard "part-time" rather than "flexible working". I don't think I'd want to sign up to being 125% more productive in my working hours...

He and his company have been based out of Singapore for over a decade. Nothing UK about him or the company bar where it started. Good riddance.

^ This - I remember he said in an interview that it would be easier to hire and fire after Brexit - and we all knew which one he really meant of those two options...

I'm currently working on a warehouse fit out. His wahroom handdryers are a fucking fortune!

Buy a mitsubishi

Do tell!