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In our current society, the solution seems to be to just get more “plastic” (aka credit cards).
And if you look at the value of a 90% silver dime (pre-1965, just melt value, not numismatic), its $1.12 as of today’s silver value. Just one dime.
We had good currency ONCE. Then FDR and others fucked it over so they could spend, spend, spend.
KaD- thanks for the link. Things just keep getting curiouser and curiouser. We do indeed live in interesting times.
I think they’re about to get very interesting.
It actually costs the U.S. Mint about 2 cents to make a penny. That is a good indicator that your financial system is dysfunctional – when it costs more to make the coins than they are worth, but as usual, most of the brain-dead sheeple don’t have a clue.
Of course, pennies are not even really necessary anymore. Due to inflation, nickels and dimes are both worth less than a penny was worth 100 years ago. So we could easily just eliminate pennies, and use nickels (or even dimes) as our smallest coin monetary unit. That would get rid of the penny problem. I actually wrote a letter to my senator about 35 years ago proposing just that. I have occasionally heard that idea proposed a few other times over the years, but it never gets any serious attention. There is always some retarded reason why it is opposed. One of the most retarded reasons I ever heard was that the merchants would take advantage of consumers by rounding prices up to the nearest 5 cents instead of down.