Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoBig Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bankjacobin.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1300arrow-down19
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minus-squareABetterTomorrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoEveryone does. T-Mobile has their own credit card.
minus-squarekaty ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoyeah but most of those are all just branded while being backed by synchrony or barclays
minus-squareABetterTomorrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYeah but it’s a start and that scary.
minus-squaremPony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoT_mobile doesn’t force its users to get their credit card, or force them to use it, or force them to enlist their friends and family to get one. If Big Tech has their way, all of these things and Andy Rooney will be yours in less than 60 minutes.
minus-squareABetterTomorrow@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago….yet. They all start somewhere. It just needs enough people to get caught in the net
Everyone does. T-Mobile has their own credit card.
yeah but most of those are all just branded while being backed by synchrony or barclays
Yeah but it’s a start and that scary.
T_mobile doesn’t force its users to get their credit card, or force them to use it, or force them to enlist their friends and family to get one.
If Big Tech has their way, all of these things and Andy Rooney will be yours in less than 60 minutes.
….yet. They all start somewhere. It just needs enough people to get caught in the net