Visa, Plaid, networks, and jobs
<i>“He had three girls working on Burroughs bookkeeping machines, each handling 1,000 to 1,500 accounts. I looked at the size of the accounts: $4.58. $12.82. And he was sending out monthly bills on these accounts. Then the customers paid him maybe three or four months later. Think of what this man was spending on postage, labor, envelopes, stationery! His accounts receivables were dragging him under.”</i><p>I never got why credit cards were such a big deal for merchants, until reading this.<p>I never got why credit cards were such a big deal for consumers, until I heard this: <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/736352315/episode-922-the-cost-of-getting-your-money-back" rel="nofollow">https://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/736352315/episode-922-the-cos...</a><p>What a week of learning about credit cards it has been!