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> As a general rule, the US is terrible at a lot of first-world things for a good reason: because it was the first (or close).

Is that really true?

ATMs were first in Europe and Japan, BACS in the UK is older than ACH in the US.

I think this is more about lack of coordination (i.e. political reasons) than something like a natural first mover disadvantage.

German debit cards for example simply had both stripes and chip for the transition period.



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