Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold

Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by AmenBreak on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:38PM (#36117225)

That's an awful idea. Especially the "down/up" part.

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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by scandox on Monday May 29, 2023 @03:49PM (#36117361)

Well it's actually 5 cents and it works absolutely fine.

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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by red-iron-pine on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:21PM (#36117655)

They ditched pennies in Canada and round the cent. Works fine.

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Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold by TehShrike on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:13AM (#36125098)

This already happens with cents. Your tax frequently comes out to a fraction of a cent, and it gets rounded to the nearest cent.

The US used to have a half-penny coin. It stopped being minted in 1857.

The purchasing power of the half-penny at the time was about as much as a quarter has today.

It wouldn't be crazy to get rid of all coins worth less than 25¢ and round all purchases to the nearest quarter.

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