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I guess we're in that stage of capitalism where specific things are deliberately made harder to support pointless parasitic service industries

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quickest is to use wise, easy transfers to US accounts for not much money, or cheaper than a bank, you get your own US a/c deets as well so they can pay you, there are other options too, they are a bank

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yes wise is great

Dave Griffiths (@nebogeo@post.lurk.org)

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If you are setting it up as an individual it seems - for a non-profit it's a bit of a nightmare

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Also the question as to why this is required

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US banking is a complete mess i never understood why, but it is

Dave Griffiths (@nebogeo@post.lurk.org)

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They have like 7 numbers for every account! No wonder crypto happened

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one thing i really find funny is that banks have a "bill pay service" where they figure out for you how to transfer money to your power company, the sewer district etc...

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So the same problem exists for internal payments too?!

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yes if you come from the european system this makes utterly no sense

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the simplest thing is often to write a paper check, e.g. to pay a contacter if they don't take credit card

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Dave Griffiths (@nebogeo@post.lurk.org)

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Paper check lol - I think these were banned in Finland in the 90s or so

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yes the whole thing is nuts it's still a manual process i think. i've had payments from belgium bounce back after a week or so, with some money subtracted for fees!