We should also kill the nickel and paper dollar at this point.
this post was submitted on 22 May 2025
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Nickel I agree with, but I feel like the the paper dollar is a bit much. Why do you want to get rid of the paper dollar too?
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Common cents
Just have a $1 coin that can snap into 10 pieces like a chocolate bar. And a $100 note that tears into 10 pieces like a book if stamps.
I'm all for it. Real talk though: at what point do we consider re-basing the dollar? I get that we're nowhere near that now, but I'm guessing it's at the "kill the $1 bill" mark?
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Guarantee Walmart starts pricing things at $xx.96 and milking $0.04 on every transaction.
If they do it they way we did in Canada, that would round down to 95¢ and you’d get a nickel back
That would be great, but… Murica and all that. If they can fuck us without lube, they will.
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It’s really not a big deal. Canada did this ages ago and the world didn’t explode.
But Canadian money isn't real money
yeah, we're all a little loony up here
Proof! Canadian quarter in a vending machine: rejected!
Completely fake money! (/s obv. Border states often interchange Canadian/US currency, vending machines reject currency they don't know.)
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Oddly reminiscent of the Roman empire.
They should keep pennies and put Trump's face on them so I can throw them in the trash
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Great title
Canada did this thirteen years ago.
I guess this is a good thing, but I can imagine some companies taking advantage of this
Don’t nickels cost like 14 cents each, and won’t we need a lot more of them?
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