Why is the US ALWAYS last or different (legal, Canada, politicians)

[Botev1912]

The US always massively adopts better/newer technologies/trends last or never (still no metric). Banks don't want to issue chip and PIN cards that are the standard in Europe, South America, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Africa, Asia and 99% of the world. Capital One even thinks it's GOOD NEWS their new chip cards will only require signatures (no PIN). What is so good about it? Consumers using US credit cards (either with magnetic stripe or with chip/signature) have a lot of problems when they try to make a payment in many places overseas. Why is the US always so stubborn when sudden changes are necessary in order to prosper?

Americans going abroad? You better bring cash

Chip & PIN vs. Chip & Signature

[iNviNciBL3]

Because we are such a backwards country stuck in the stone ages!!! the rest of the world is so much better than us blah blah blah!!

Seriously though, those chip and PIN cards look cool, using Metric? lol i could care less.

[Botev1912]

this is no coincidence. Everything is always different and there is a reason for that.

[iNviNciBL3]

Yea changes just take more change in larger countries it seems, like on same sex marriage... we have over 300 million people debating the federal laws on marriage.. when plenty of smaller and or less populated countries have same sex marriage legal for many years.... its been legal in the Netherlands since 2001 but imagine if Europe was just one big country that included Eastern Europe...

[Mini-apple-less]

Why is American Internet so bad?

[Count David]

Originally Posted by Botev1912

The US always massively adopts better/newer technologies/trends last or never (still no metric). Banks don't want to issue chip and PIN cards that are the standard in Europe, South America, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Africa, Asia and 99% of the world. Capital One even thinks it's GOOD NEWS their new chip cards will only require signatures (no PIN). What is so good about it? Consumers using US credit cards (either with magnetic stripe or with chip/signature) have a lot of problems when they try to make a payment in many places overseas. Why is the US always so stubborn when sudden changes are necessary in order to prosper?

Americans going abroad? You better bring cash

Chip & PIN vs. Chip & Signature

I cannot comment without getting political.

I will simply say that regression is simply too powerful in this country.

[kyle19125]

Because the politicians no longer run this country for the most part, rather corporations and to a lesser extent special interest groups. The corporations that manufacture/represent our "backward technologies" would lose billions/trillions retrofitting their capabilities.