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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • You just eloquently explained some reasons. Why did you say there’s no reason coins aren’t circulated in foreign markets? That was your statement that made no sense. Not because people’s emotional decisions don’t make sense, but because the literal meaning of the sentance you used didn’t make sense.

    And yes those things are solvable problems. Thinking they’re barriers is just a symptom of the pervasive hopeless perspective that’s popular right now.

    Breaking that perspective is the only hope I have for this presidency. I hope he changes so much in such terrible ways, that people will realize major pervasive change is possible. And after so much gets fucked up, it’ll be an imperative to over correct the damage he’ll do, improving things to better than they were before.


  • Everything is the way it is. Yet things still change. Literally everything changes eventually. So no, it’s not a good reason, merely an empty excuse. “The human aspect”, is a less insulting sounding way of saying “People don’t like change.” Which is true, but as I already said, every thing changes anyway and people deal with it and adapt every time.

    There is no reason that coins don’t circulate in foreign markets but the fact remains that they don’t.

    That sentence is literal nonsense. As in, it doesn’t make sense.
    If there’s no reason coins don’t circulate, then they would be circulating; Or could be made to circulate, with no real resistance or effort.

    Then you go on to further not explain why the dollar note is necessary in some markets, and they wouldn’t be able to adapt.
    That’s a very hand-wavey way to create a roadblock excuse.




  • There’s just too much stuff that runs on quarters […] too much cultural staying power.

    “Because that’s the way it is” is never a good reason not to do something new.
    It’s always the case that things don’t change. Until they suddenly and unexpectedly do. Then in hind sight it seems obvious they should have changed long earlier.

    US dollar circulates widely in foreign countries […] There, US coinage is basically non-existent

    There’s no real reason coins couldn’t circulate in foreign markets. They don’t because the value to weight ratio is worse for shipping. But if the coin value went up to a dollar, and the dollar note wasn’t an option anymore, foreign markets would adapt just fine. Especially since the coins would circulate for decades longer.