Is it a big deal that it costs > 1 cent to make a penny?

[Stringer]

@Shagnasty

It is easy really. Each store would have a little paper card they give you with ten circles on it. When you pay, the clerk with take out a little stamp and marks the number of pennies you have credited on that purchase. When you want to use your remaining pennies, you just present the card and the clerk X’s off the one that you used. You just keep a little binder of cards for each store or chain that you frequent and present them as needed. Seamless.

Oh man this was funny. I see a couple people even got whooshed.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@micahjn

Oh man this was funny. I see a couple people even got whooshed.

I hope you’re not accusing me of being whooshed. Think about it; I’m living in a country where everybody seems to think we have to walk around with infinitesimal coins that are worth a fiftieth of a newspaper or a thousandth of a movie ticket. You can’t tell me that Shagnasty’s proposal, or any other, would be too ludicrous to be seriously entertained.

[Common_Tater]

Well, how about the other side of the coin, so to speak? Couldn’t we just recognize that a penny is now “worth” 2c?