As a woman, coins can be irritating because, for some stupid reason, women's clothing is entirely ill-equipped in the pocket department. I think there is a wee bit of collusion in the fashion industry to force women to buy handbags. And the only thing I can ever find in my handbag would be my wallet. And coins simply don't fit in a wallet...
Perhaps if a sack of coins was proferred as a form of crime deterrent... Imagine all the women on the subway fondling sacks of coin instead of cans of mace? "It's a sap, it's your lunch money. Support the US Mint and whack some would-be vagabonds today!"
Seriously, though. If we move to coins, would the US Dollar have an actual verifiable value again beyond, I'm not even sure what the word for it would be, the suggestion of value that it currently has since it stopped being backed by real gold? It absolutely baffles me that the entire US economy is actually based on trust, for lack of another word. If the US government were to be dissolved for any reason, our little pieces of paper and all the zero's at the end of our collective networths wouldn't mean much, and that's a little scary. I'm surprised foreign countries trade in US dollars at all.
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Date: 2007-02-18 08:24 pm (UTC)As a woman, coins can be irritating because, for some stupid reason, women's clothing is entirely ill-equipped in the pocket department. I think there is a wee bit of collusion in the fashion industry to force women to buy handbags. And the only thing I can ever find in my handbag would be my wallet. And coins simply don't fit in a wallet...
Perhaps if a sack of coins was proferred as a form of crime deterrent... Imagine all the women on the subway fondling sacks of coin instead of cans of mace? "It's a sap, it's your lunch money. Support the US Mint and whack some would-be vagabonds today!"
Seriously, though. If we move to coins, would the US Dollar have an actual verifiable value again beyond, I'm not even sure what the word for it would be, the suggestion of value that it currently has since it stopped being backed by real gold? It absolutely baffles me that the entire US economy is actually based on trust, for lack of another word. If the US government were to be dissolved for any reason, our little pieces of paper and all the zero's at the end of our collective networths wouldn't mean much, and that's a little scary. I'm surprised foreign countries trade in US dollars at all.