COINS ARE EVIL and they must be stopped

[prickvixen]

I was thinking about change tonight, coinage, and I decided that it's just become a device for tricking people into spending more money than they mean to. Because decades ago, coins were actually viable denominations, rather than a nuisance. You could actually buy things with a nickel or a dime, like a meal or a book or something. Now coinage has just become a mechanism for forcing people to do fractions in their head, which most people don't do very well, and for chiseling fractional amounts of money off of consumers. At least that's my impression of it.

Comments

[yippee.livejournal.com]

try putting a dollar coin into a stripper's g-string...

Either that or there's a dopey dragon somewhere sitting on a big pile of Sacagawea dollars.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that would feel nice.