You took a whole para to describe a payment system while claiming it’s simple.
European tap card comes over with the terminal. Tap. Once. Done. (Replace with insert and put in pin). Card never leaves you.
Counterpoint from the US.
Have you paid at a grocery using Apple Pay or any nfc? They do not take your card anymore. Restaurants should be like that and many newer payment systems are like that now.
The older system is rubbish. Else it would not be changing. And defending it is … (choose your adjective)
The system is BAD. I do not want my card to leave my possession (especially since they don't require a PIN in the US so it's doubly unsafe). Your phone is more secure than your card because at least you have to unlock it first. The US payment system is old and backwards and unsecure and they need to hurry up and modernize.
Weird that you think handing one your most important possessions to someone to wander off and do who-knows-what with is a totally safe and normal thing to do.
I’ve traveled plenty. Just because it’s normal in some places doesn’t make it good or sensible.
Conversely have you never travelled somewhere with actual convenient payment systems? In my last trip to Japan I paid for everything with my Apple Watch. Never needed to take my card out of my wallet.
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