cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/politicalmemes/p/843651/valid-point
Admittedly, I only have a couple of gen Z friends, but they both have the biggest wallets of anyone I know.
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2026
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Yeah, humans still occasionally acquire important small pieces of paper or plastic that are convenient to stow in some type of small container that can be keep on the person, what a shock.
My wallet isn’t owned by a tech conglomerate that has access and admin privileges to everything inside of it. Also, I just don’t want my phone to be everything, especially my I.D.
License, registration, and proof of insurance
Mind if I see your phone? It's just hard to read.
OH INTERESTING CONVERSATION YOU HAD WITH "WALGREENS GUY" ABOUT "SANDWICHES" HOW ABOUT YOU STEP OUTTA THE CAR
Is sandwiches drugs
Ha, joke's on you. I don't have a car.
My phone's dead. Guess I'm broke until I find a charger.
Let me break out my checkbook in the grocery store line and watch their souls leave their bodies.
I was born in 2000, so I count as gen Z, and I genuinely prefer using physical debit card to paying with a phone (except when I need to touch the keyboard on a terminal).
But I'm weird like that and I like physical things, like my wallet with a sewing kit and bottle opener. In other pocket I keep a knife and a small flashlight
And I'm not installing my government app, and especially I'm not installing some shitty gym membership app, when I can have a card in my wallet.
If you can, I'd suggest switching to a credit card and just pay it off every month. The general lack of consumer protection on debit cards is frightening. So many companies put minimum effort in protecting your data.
This is how me, the murican, thinks also. but my euro wife thinks it's bonker to even keep a personal credit card and that having any amount of debt is like the worst position you can be in. ¯(ツ)/¯
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Paying with cash is the most private method. I hope it stays.
You already can't in so many places. I thought it was required to accept cash, but apparently that's only for paying the government.
Cash is required to be accepted to clear a debt.
Cash is not required to be accepted to make a purchase.
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I've worked in IT support/Security for too long to have any of my cards just a short nfc tap away from being used/stolen from.
Don't you need to unlock the phone to activate the NFC chip though?
Then you're well aware that it doesn't work while the card is in a typical wallet.
I strayed into not taking a wallet out with me briefly, then I realised my life shouldn't rely on Apple or Android (or my (lack of) ability to charge devices).
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that's dumb. I have a wallet and so does everyone else I know in my age. Im gEn Z. these stupid generational labels make no sense
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When I'm out I keep my phone on airplane mode and in a little faraday bag. I am not dragging out my phone and waiting for it to reacquire signal every time I want to buy cigarettes. Nevermind that defeats the point of the faraday bag...
Your phone does not need an internet connection to tap to pay, in the same way your credit cards do not need an internet connection to tap to pay
How do you do tap-to-pay from inside a faraday bag?
I was addressing the “waiting to acquire signal” part, not the “removing from a bag” part which I imagine to be fast
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Uhm... on top of not having my phone as my single payment method... where should I carry my id and driver's license and medical card if not in the wallet? Should I carry them loose in the pocket? Or in my bag? Why? That's so unconvenient and in the long term ends up damaging them.
I used to have a separate wallet, but i switched to this magnetic billfold thing that attaches to the back of my phone. It has enough room for an ID, credit card, debit card, and ond of those tile locators shaped like a credit card. Unfortunately these are horrible for user privacy, but it helps me find it if I lose it. In a pinch, it can also hold a small fold of cash.
I almost never need the other things my old wallet held: insurance card, cash, other credit cards or gift cards...? What else did I even carry? I still have my old wallet at home and a small box I use to keep other ID cards, gift cards, etc.
The magnetic thing also doubles for a hands-free phone stand if I want to set the phone down on a surface and watch tv while I'm eating lunch or something.
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I left my wallet on my work desk and a youngling helped walk me through using my phone to pay for my drive-through coffee order. I felt so cool and high tech.
Of course, when we got to "turn on NFC" the youngling asked what NFC was. I think I told him it was like Bluetooth and let the phone talk to the card reader.
My older "forgot my wallet" technique was to make an online order for pick up and enter my organically memorized credit card information into the online form.
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Im not about to trust a single point of failure with everything. If my phone breaks I want alternative options
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Meanwhile I'm over here with my 1.5in thick wallet with a shitton of different cards and cash.