
Originally Posted by
Procrasturbator
Of course you don't want to pay. No one likes to. And yet everyone does, because it's a necessary part of doing business. If there was a perfect, risk-free, fee-free way to get paid why would anyone not be using it?
The only 100% free way to transfer money, anywhere, is to physically hand cash to another person. All the other ways cost money in some way--even the ways that seem free (e.g. bank transfers) actually cost money but you don't see the costs because they're hidden in or covered by other things (your bank fees, the difference between the interest the bank earns off of your money vs the minuscule amount they give you, etc.) When you get paid at a vanilla job part of the company's profits (which could otherwise go to you) are going toward the person who does payroll. If you want to be protected from grave financial risk, if you want other people to do the work of setting up money transfers, coding the webpage that your customer will go to, developing the infrastructure involved in card processing, whatever the hell else they do, I don't even know since I don't have to know and that is fantastic... you have to share the wealth a bit.
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