You're not paid by the banks you're paid by other, usually poorer, customers

Incorrect. I am paid by the banks, I have no financial relationship with other customers.

But of course banks make huge amounts of money from poor customers via various fees and interest payments. It warms my heart that I get some of those ill gotten gains insead of the evil banks.

	▲	gsb 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In order for the banks to retain the market power required to keep such high interchange fees in place the need to incentivise those who don't NEED to pay with a credit card to do so anyway, and the biggest way they do this is by splitting the loot with you. You share in the loot, and you share in the responsibility for how it was accumulated.