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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

alt-textIt blows our hivemind that the United States doesn't use the ISO 216 paper size standard (A4, A5 and the gang).

Like, we consider ourselves worldly people and are aware of America's little idiosyncrasies like mass incarceration, the widespread availability of assault weapons and not being able to transfer money via your banking app, but come on - look how absolutely great it is to be European:

The American mind cannot comprehend this diagram

[Diagram of paper sizes as listed below]

ISO 216 A series papers formats

AO

A1

A3

A5

A7

A6

Et.

A4

Instead, Americans prostrate themselves to bizarrely-named paper types of seemingly random size: Letter, Legal, Tabloid (Ledger) and all other types of sordid nonsense. We're not even going to include a picture because this is a family-friendly finance blog.

Source: Financial Times

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[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 85 points 9 months ago

Wait a second if the bank app can't transfer money how do they do it? Just barter with guns? Are the bullets like coins?

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We have a fee-free bank-to-bank transfer system that is based on pre-digital technology that takes 2-3 business days. We often call it "direct deposit" or automated clearing house (ACH). It's often used for payroll and paying bills.

Now, we could probably make this payment system instantaneous relatively effortlessly (and thus useful for regular in-store purchases), but the banks lobby against this so they can continue to charge us fees and interest to over-use credit cards. (Interestingly enough, credit and debit cards all use direct deposit on the backend to actual transfer funds between parties).

This is all fine and dandy for most people because they simply can't imagine doing things a more consumer-friendly way.

[-] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 9 months ago

Your comment is all true, except - we CAN all imagine it, but as you pointed out, our unchecked hyper capitalism prevents it

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