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| quote: | Originally posted by delobbo
Just some thoughts similar to that pic of the washers made out of pennies.. I was watching a show on pennies today. It costs $124 million to make $80 million worth of pennies. (The zinc is worth more than the penny itself.) Thought it was pretty ridiculous. Similar applies to nickels. There are many people that want to see the penny go away - but there are also reasons to keep the penny. It doesn't look like it will ever go away. But there are a good number of places downtown, for instance, that don't do pennies - if you owe (or are owed) $3.52 or 3.48, they'll take (or give) $3.50 - mainly the quick convenience type marts in buildings. I see that becoming more common. At the end of the day the + and - probably balance either out rather well and they know it. One of the arguments against keeping pennies is productivity time in counting pennies for change. |
i wouldn't worry about it that much. there is definitely a huge shift in the amount of cashless transactions that take place. will we ever be able to get rid of physical money? probably not. but at the rate things are going the amount of cash transactions will soon be immaterial.
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| quote: | Originally posted by lucid
pro tip: if you value your life, NEVER do anything that will place you "outside" of the jonze circle of trust. |
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