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egorfine a day ago

Title: PayPal [..] Reimagining How Money Moves to Anyone, Anywhere.

Text: PayPal users in the U.S. can begin [..] today, with international expansion [..] starting later this month.

So immediately out of the box it is exactly NOT for "anyone" and NOT "anywhere".

This is contagious: a couple of years ago Gnosis tried to launch their Gnosis Card[1] on Berlin DappCon with the exact same slogan: "Anyone, anywhere" while only accepting applications from a select group of people living in select EU countries.

I have had discussion with their CEO right there regarding this marketingspeak but he did not seem to grasp what's the problem at all here.

You can't make this shit up.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4_6aOUagY4

heap_perms a day ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, it’s textbook USdefaultism.

"Look how global we are… as long as you have a U.S. address, the correct passport, a bank account in a supported country, a smartphone with the correct OS."

DennisP a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Well in fairness they really have reimagined how money moves to anyone anywhere, they just haven't changed it yet. Plus they used a verb tense suggesting the process is ongoing. If they said "we changed how money moves to anyone anywhere" then that would be inaccurate, but that's not what they said.

egorfine a day ago | parent [-]

It is almost like there were two departments in play. One that did reimagine how the global crypto money works, and the other who cannot image transacting without a recent utility bill. And they met in the press release.