The card ecosystem, including Visa, MasterCard, and Dee Hock's contributions, enabled valuable features like credit issuance, despite critiques.
And as you look at these other counterfactuals in other places, one feels gratitude for what it is, that Dee Hock and Visa and MasterCard and the card networks made possible. I'm not saying they're perfect, that one can't make critiques, but I'm most interested in critiques from people who've really studied the ecosystems of other countries, because it's easy to underestimate what we got in their invention.
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Dee Hock · person · mentions
Visa · service · mentions
MasterCard · service · mentions