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> I see absolutely no reason this concept couldn't take off in the West.

It could, but it would require the government to require use of the everything app in some way. In the west, there are so many choices for payments and messaging. Yes the snowballing you describe exists, but requires an immense amount of gravity - that at this point only Apple and Google really have.




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