Credit Cards -- Bad for the average person?

[ducknald_don]

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/maga ... wards.html

According to a 2010 policy paper by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the average cash-using household paid $149 over the course of a year to card-using households, while each card-using household received $1,133 from cash users, partially in the form of rewards. It remains a regressive transfer to this day.

[Alphaville]

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/maga ... wards.html

yes, i got tired of being on the subsidizing end.

BUT some of those rewards were available to me even on a low income via my credit union, using debit mastercard (not credit).

eg see: https://www.kasasa.com/

basically my credit union pays me to have an account with them, plus high interest checking up to a reasonable amount for a low income household.

as for the unbanked, paying only in specie and banknotes, ok, they're screwed in more ways than one.

so here's to the incoming administration enabling postal banking for the benefit of the poor (and the detriment of payday lenders).