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I agree getting rid of the penny is a good thing, but it's really bad that this is setting a precedent to give the president a lot more power

It's also a really poor implementation considering the government has given no guidance on how businesses must handle it

I work at a bank, and people are trying to buy all of our pennies as collectors and leave none for the people who are actually going to use them. it's a clusterfuck lmao

The penny died pretty quick in Canada, I would argue and say it’ll be gone within 3 years, tenders will just round up/down the total and no longer hand them out.

It reminds me of a popular misconception about Earth and our atmosphere and climate.

A lot of the people who advocate for the environment believe that reduction in trees will jeopardize our oxygen and that we'll run out of breathable air at some point.

The problem is actually that trees capture and hold carbon, the danger to the environment is almost strictly just the release of excess carbon.

If we lost every last tree and phytoplankton bloom in the world, we would still have enough breathable oxygen to last potentially thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, with some estimates depending on a lot of complex factors, saying that some level of of population density could stay alive for millions of years.

(Edited figures)

Some of you dummies think I'm saying climate change isn't a concern. You needa learn to read.

I'd give my two cents but I guess they're just gonna go up in collector value possibly

We have enough pennies in circulation that your great-granddroids are going to be digging them out of the couch cushions of the ruins of homes for decades.

What a boomerism

Yeah, but honestly getting rid of coins is an admission that inflation is high relative to 40-50 years ago. When pretty much every government wants to keep that fact out of the public consciousness. Especially the current US government who wants to both claim we don't have inflation at all, and are the ones getting rid of the penny.

I've been saying we should drop the penny for almost 2 decades, but I still kind of look at getting rid of the penny as a sign of our current government's abysmal handling of inflation.

Paper dollars make no sense either.

So I don't know the term for it, maybe it's just propaganda, but a quarter feels like it has value.

The penny however doesn't have that feeling. Vending machines often say "No Pennies" and toll booths say "No Pennies", even though the Penny exists everyone sorta already agreed the Penny wasn't worth the hassle.

I think you could probably convince people the same is true for the nickel. Although eliminating just the nickel is tricky since you'd keep the dime and quarter and that divides weirdly. So you should also remove the dime but that now really starts to feel like it had value.

But the quarter. That would be a hard sell. You're basically eliminating all coins at that point. Unless you plan on making the half dollar wayyy more popular.

They tried in Ohio. They couldnt stop running over kids waiting for the bus in the morning dark so it was reverted.

No one can agree on which time to use so time change will never go away. It's really annoying. I don't give a shit which we use, just toss of the ducking time change. It's 1 hour, people gotta chill.