Physical games and movies, the ability to actually buy a real object that's not simply a service, is being thrown to the dogs. Next is the ability to actually have real money on hand and not a tenuous link like a debit card or the even-worse credit card. I literally had a card deactivated out of nowhere, either because someone harvested my number somehow or even typed in my number on accident. Card readers are so much more horrifying than somehow getting fake bills from a bank or business teller. Chips will not protect you forever.
You don't see anything wrong with rewarding people for throwing a bit of liberty away? Mobile payments, what kind of terrifying future are people concocting here? Just how many different attack vectors do people want their phones to be? American credit is the most awful thing ever, very few people are ever able to take advantage of it. There's nothing convenient about any of this. At the end of the day, "convenience" is actually a very inconvenient thing. People are so preoccupied over whether they can that they never stop to think whether they should, that sort of thing. It's also frustrating that any attempt to challenge this is seen as the ramblings of an old fart that just needs to get with the times, and not very real fears based on actual events (regardless of that person's age too).
Also, I very much agree with the "this sounds too much like it belongs on the other forum" sentiment. Then again, it also seems strange to have a thread about trying to figure out how to pronounce the site's compound name, a name that directly refers to trying to get away from that other forum...
