Not since the first time I heard the line, "It turns out that the Iliad and the Odyssey were not, in fact, written by Homer, but by another ancient Greek of the same name," have I come across something as wonderfully surreal as this.
Responding to the never-ending calls to abolish the penny, James Poulos suggests:
The clear solution ... is not to eliminate the penny but to kill off the nickel and make pennies worth five cents.
He actually makes a good case.
2 comments:
I am surprised that we still have physical money in our increasingly virtual world.
Be glad we do. You want the gummint to be able to track every one of your purchases?
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