What is with Americans and paper cheques? I haven’t seen one for at least a decade.
I wouldn’t mind having a horse for transportation, but got damn are they expensive (both financially and physically) to maintain.
How the hell did anyone but the rich afford horses before the car‽
In California in the 1800s there were so many horses running around that people only bothered to take care of their saddle. Probably an exception though!
A horse is a car you can never turn off. If it dies it never starts back up.
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
I still have checkbooks with the 19__ prefix printed to make it easier to write the year!
JFC, I love you old tech savvy people, but is this place the internet’s retirement community?
Oh well, at least I appriciate your wisdom and prefer running into you guys instead of the fucking bots that spoint absurd propaganda.
Checks are still useful. When adulting you have to pay bills to the government, various taxes and fees. Unfortunately (yay privatization 😡) in order to accept online payments there are more than a few government agencies that have contracted with private vendors to take electronic payment. Of course this saves tax money so the government doesn’t have to expend IT resources to create a site to do this, especially in smaller municipalities, but it also generates leech middlemen who use their position to extract fees for the convenience of allowing you to pay a bill online. Fuck those businesses.
So the old process of writing a check, finding an envelope and stamp and sending it via regular post is better than giving some shitty leech company a fee for taking money from you and handing it to the agency.
