Pennies

Do you think pennies should be kept in circulation?

  • Da

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Nyet

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • I don't care

    Votes: 3 14.3%
  • Total voters
    21
Yoshi 2.0 said:
Keep the pennies, in the past you could go to stores and buy candies for a penny.
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In the past, people also made less money.
 
You can't even use pennies in some machines (I don't know which one).

How much money will people gain or lose if we're going to round things by the nickel?
 
Baby Luigi said:
That's why I mentioned that it is pointless; it would cause an unnecessary infrastructure change issue, another problem we don't need in the US. It's kinda like converting us here from the English to the Metric system.
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Why would it have to be that much of a hassle? Canada got rid of their penny without much fuss and bother.
 
I don't know I'm not educated on this
 
My thought process on this is that if the currency is base-10 and $1 (100 cents) then the most basic value (1 cent) should be available. If it costs too much in materials then make it out of something else; it wouldn't be the first time the metal used in coins changed.
 
Morty said:
My thought process on this is that if the currency is base-10 and $1 (100 cents) then the most basic value (1 cent) should be available. If it costs too much in materials then make it out of something else; it wouldn't be the first time the metal used in coins changed.
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The problem is that we're running out of stuff to make pennies out of. Copper is way too valuable for pennies now, and zinc is getting pretty close to topping the value too, so basically all that's left is aluminum. (recyclable pennies?)
 
I'm allergic to coins. So I use bank notes instead. So annoying for the change. I usually wear gloves for those days.
 
Floki said:
running...

running out of stuff to make pennies out of?
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Running out of stuff cheap enough to make pennies out of. The material's still perfectly there, it just costs much more than 1 cent.
 
Best system:

1) eliminate nickels and dimes

2) one USD cent equals one compliment

3) a $14.99 (not figuring sales tax) could be paid with a ten, four ones, three quarters, two dimes, and four compliments to the cashier. or, a ten, a five, and the cashier gives you one compliment

4) pennies eliminated and suicide rates dramatically increase (edit: this is too beautiful a typo to change) as people become nicer to each other
 
i fucking love pennies i get so excited when i see one on the ground

i collect them for about 7 months and cash them in, i make a pretty buck, ive hit up to 10 bucks before from collecting pennies from change or finding them on the ground
 
I saw a similar thread on NSG, and one of the proponents of keeping pennies claimed that he/she had amassed $150 of them that he/she uses to pay for various things on a regular basis.

How the bloody hell do you carry around $150 worth of pennies feasibly? That's over 80 pounds of dead weight.
 
Farkles14 said:
I saw a similar thread on NSG, and one of the proponents of keeping pennies claimed that he/she had amassed $150 of them that he/she uses to pay for various things on a regular basis.

How the bloody hell do you carry around $150 worth of pennies feasibly? That's over 80 pounds of dead weight.
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it's magic that's how

and NSG?
 
I think the only reason for pennies is because everything is 99 cents. So they should go IMO.

Lord Bowser said:
Floki said:
suicide rates dramatically increase as people become nicer to each other
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don't you mean "decrease"?
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1970?
 
Floki said:
oh

oh oh oh oh shiiiiit

ok, i see what m4e was fascinated by, now
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i actually thought this was intentional and the implication was that the stress of constantly having to be artificially nice would drive people to kill themselves
 
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