There are still LOTS of pennies out there. There are basements with old mason jars and coffee cans full of them. Once people figure out they don't have any real value, they'll get dumped on the market. It will take decades to clear them all out.
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The church crowd collectively shitting themselves over what to leave for a tip at brunch
Church crowd is pretty awful in the grocery industry, too. It was especially bad at my previous store, which was in a deeply evangelical town in Central Alberta. All would be quiet on Sunday until about noon. Then the floodgates would open to the most high-on-their-own-farts religious degenerates. Nobody talked down to you quite like a middle-aged woman in church clothes. And they would plug up all the aisles talking scripture and shit. Fuck, I hated that town.
Oh please, they've been using those fake dollar, judgemental prayer notes for years
I'm not familiar. What is that?
They're slips of paper designed to be folder that look like a folded 5, 10, 20 dollar notes but when you open them its just a prayer or a note about how you're going to hell for greed because you expected money. Some people leave them as tips for some reason
They should throw them in the collection plate when that is passed around.
They've been planning for this. Church ads with faux dollars printed on the front cost less than a penny to print.
Is this a thing for church people.. Are they notorious bad tippers?
Some delusional religious freaks think they are doing you a huge favor by leaving a fake bill that either has a Bible verse and some dumb lesson, or an invite to their church.
They're giving you the opportunity to save your mortal soul, isn't that worth more than some pathetic tip? You were never going to get 15% out of those losers anyway.
Or maybe they're just fucking cheap bastards, using their religion as an excuse, like they use it to justify every other terrible thing they do in life, because they're Christians.
church people are notoriously bad everything
it's why they have to go to church. because they can't just be good people.
To quote an ex-friend who was also Christian, "A church isn't a club of saints, its a hospital of sinners."
Yes. The sunday "after church" brunch is considered the worst possible shift in any resturant open for it.
Tends towards self righteous and demanding people who enjoy flaunting status and casting judgement. It also runs older, and older people tend to tip what they tipped in the past, and not keep up with inflation.
$2 might have been nice in 1988, but it isnt going far in 2025.
Also the worst retail customers when they are either finished with lunch or waiting to be paged for their table
Now will they have pressed nickel machines
Those press machines have used brass blanks for over a decade. Zinc pennies don't press well.
The dime is currently worth less than the halfpenny was when it stopped being minted because it wasn't useful to do so anymore.
This is wildly overdue, and honestly, probably not far enough.
Thanks CGP Grey. You keep moving them goalposts.
Just like how the federal minimum wage needs to be over 22 dollars, not just Fif-Teen bucks an hour
...what?
CGP Grey is a youtuber who made a video years ago about stopping printing the penny. when trump announced ending printing the penny, he made basically the same video about stopping printing the nickel, and the dime.
Due to Inflation.
The same reason that Bernie sanders pushed for a $15/h minimum wage, which should itself be inflated from its 2016 amount to 22 bucks an hour.
While I think both of you are making reasonable arguments, I wanted to make fun of the situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SrtQNt4YE < kill nickels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U < Kill pennies
Sure, I mean, I'm also all for raising the minimum wage, as it's wildly stagnated against inflation. You can be for that and for getting rid of the penny?
Idk, I just don't understand how I'm "moving the goalposts"? Or perhaps I've just misunderstood the point of your comment.
I actually have seen that CGP Grey video before though, and it's only gotten more relevant as time has gone on, lol. It doesn't make it bad policy just because Trump is the one doing it.
Idk, I just don’t understand how I’m “moving the goalposts”? Or perhaps I’ve just misunderstood the point of your comment.
CGP Grey made the video for "get rid of the penny". When they got rid of the penny, he made the video "get rid of the nickel, and the dime." When the original goal as getting rid of the penny, once that was achieved, he moved the goalposts to get rid of the nickel.
Your statement is in line with CGP Grey's (correct) viewpoint.
Pointing this out in a facetious manner is meant to be humorous.
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A sensible decision, and one other countries have made before. If anything, this would probably have happened sooner, if US coins didn’t have affectionate nicknames that tended to accumulate sentimental associations. (There are a lot of sayings mentioning pennies, which will now lapse into the realm of archaism, alongside nursery rhymes mentioning pre-decimal British currency. There will also be dudes keen to explain that, actually, a penny was a 1c coin, and some of them will get the details confidently wrong.)
I can think of "penny for your thoughts," and "I don't give a red cent," and arguably the very concept of "penny loafers," but all of those are already fairly archaic. What are some others?
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Another thing the president is not supposed to be able to do unilaterally.
Thought one: Did they bother to legislate how cash transactions will work without it?
Thought two: dollars should just become cents. Then we can go back to the days of “ten candies for a penny” that my grandma always talks about and maybe old people will see how unaffordable things really are
Thought one: Did they bother to legislate how cash transactions will work without it?
Congress did not. Apparently it causes issues in some states.
In some states and cities, it is illegal to round up a transaction to the nearest nickel or dime because doing so would run afoul of laws that are supposed to place cash customers and debit and credit card customers on an equal playing field when it comes to item costs. So, to avoid lawsuits, retailers are rounding down.
Per AP
It's also silly because a bill was introduced in April to answer this question, but it's just sitting around. You know how busy Congress is nowadays. (Also similar bills have come up in the past, but also just sat around and nothing became of them.)
If you'll pardon my insanity for a moment, there is something to be said for the Executive branch making a decision that the Legislative branch refused to make. The Legislative have ceded so much power to the Executive that they should be embarrassed. I wish this was front page news about political overreach. Instead it's just, "Yeah, everyone knows Congress can't do shit."
Apparently it causes issues in some states.
… issues that would not be rendered moot by the supremacy clause of the Constitution!? If Congress passes a law saying that because the federal currency will no longer include a $0.01 denomination, all cash transactions must be (either rounded to the nearest $0.05, or must have change values in multiples of $0.05), states are obliged to follow this law. As it is, the mint will just stop making a kind of money, leaving states in the lurch, and potentially inviting lawsuits from state attorneys general.
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Of course not, they will leave it to the free (unregulated) market.
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Great, now we can blame millennials for killing the penny. /s
Welp, so much for adding to my pressed-penny collection
You can still add to it up until every penny currently in the wild has been pressed or destroyed. 🤷♂️
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