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It varies by person, but if you are moderately responsible and have a budget or at least a good handle on your monthly income you would be stupid to not, say, buy things using Apple Card (just an example) with Apple Pay for 2% daily cash back. In addition, if someone swipes your debit card and steals the money from your account you are screwed. If someone swipes your credit card you just get a new card and nothing bad happens to you. You also have protections from bad sellers/merchants through chargeback mechanisms.

You just use the credit card as the debit card and you are good to go. Certainly not everyone can handle that and there's probably a society-wide problem here but that doesn't detract from the individual decision to be made in the operating environment.



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