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Should the US get rid of the penny? (discuss.online)
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Is it about time, or is it still useful? If you think its time has passed, what about the nickel/dime/quarter?

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[โ€“] Anticorp 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Idk man. Richard Pryor's half a penny scam from the old Superman III comes to mind. I'm sure the corporations will use it to figure out a way to make billions more dollars. Basically I don't want anything to change anymore. I can't think of the last positive change since the ACA. It seems like every change, even ones that seem positive, end up screwing us over.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The thing is, billionaires "win" no matter what we do (just look at the likes of Zuckerberg's dead fish eyed stare: that's "winning" folks, apparently! Makes me glad that I'm just a scumbag "loser" who can actually enjoy some aspects of life!?). So the rest of us might as well get something that we want out of it all as well?