I used to be ignorant on this but after traveling overseas several times I can no longer ignore how shitty US paper money and coins both are.>pennies cost more to produce than they are worth (luckily this seems to be changing). They should just be gotten rid of.>nickels are fine>dimes: why the fuck are they smaller than the nickel and penny both?>quarter is fine>half dollar coin is fine mostly, but it's too large and isn't common at all>dollar coin, which should be way more common as well, is smaller than the 50 cent coin (???)And don't get me started on the bills>1$ bill is basically useless now, should've been replaced by the 1$ coin>2$ bill should be more common, is basically unheard of though>5$, 10$, 50$, 100$ are fine, except the lower denominations can generally be more difficult to distinguish then they need to be>a 200$ bill or even a 500$ needs to be introduced>none of the bills are waterproof or polymer-coated like many other currency, meaning they collect sweat and moisture and generally are filthy to handleNo wonder le cashless society was so easy to implement on America, no one wants to deal with this retarded and poorly designed shit. When I become supreme overlord dictator of the United States, the first thing I will do is fix this stupid currency.
First thing any leader of the US should do is make it actually free and not a land of cocksucking retards depending on the government.I say we go back to the gold standard. Pay in money made of gold. Actual gold and silver coins.
>>84663716I would love to agree but it's been possible to synthesize elemental metals like gold and silver for a while now.
>>84663666Lmao that is nothing. UK used to have the most fucked up currency system a couple decades ago.
>>84663811I remember in 7th grade finding a 3 pence coin in the sports field like what the actual fuck is this thing. I dont get how the UK economy is doing so bad yet most foreign currencies are worthless to GBP.
>>84663811this actually seems cool
>>84663811It's not so strange, I guess. Get rid of everything under a shilling, then ignore the penny values, and, bam, it's standard normal decimal currency.
>>84663841>I dont get how the UK economy is doing so bad yet most foreign currencies are worthless to GBP.Exchange rate doesn't really tell you much about the health of the economy as a whole. The UK also highly specializes in financial services which simply moves a lot of money by default so there's a reason for the pound to be bought in large amounts, which drives up its value. Combine that with the mere legacy of the British empire and there you have it. It also really doesn't matter if the niggerbills in your country have a >1 exchange rate against the faggotcoins in my country, if the median income and purchasing power of currency is better in yours. It's not like everybody started with a perfect 1:1 exchange rate where each single unit of currency had the exact same purchasing power in each country. The numbers are arbitrary and kind of made up on the spot when a new currency is introduced.
>>84663875This guy just explained exchange rates better to me than an actual banker did 12 years ago.
>>84663743No there isn't. You can make gold in a particle accelerator but the quantities are far too small to be useful and the costs are staggering. The biggest problem with gold today is that it's easy to counterfeit. It worked in the old days because they didn't have anything more dense than gold, but today we have tungsten and depleted uranium that can make a very convincing fake. Governments are sitting on huge stockpiles of depleted uranium and it would be in their best interest to make it into fake gold coins and flood the market of any adversarial nation that was using gold currency.
Dimes, quarters, half dollars, and dollars, used to be silver. Their sizes corresponded to the quantity of silver. Copper pennies, and nickel nickels, were made of substantially less valuable metals, causing them to be larger than silver dimes.The modern dollar coin was shrunk down in size, as they hadn't been made of silver for a very long time, and the old size was seen as unwieldy and pointless when you're using a worthless alloy.The US had $500, $1000, $5000, $10,000 notes, but they're no longer produced because the government is too worried about you not paying your taxes. Just like what's happened with the 500 Euro note.
Crypto is the best, aside from the problem of it being illegal. Untraceable, represents real hard value, no fuckiness or scamming, only way to get more is by improving the grid and making power cheaper, more sustainable etc.No I don't mean niggerfartcoin or cbdc. Something proof of work, fully private, code is law kind of thing. Monero looks good, but anything will work provided it's proof of work, private, and extremely hostile towards laws, legal system, and finance by design. But people are too stupid to be their own bank so I guess we get a retard coin with inflation, built in taxes, infinite amounts printed on a whim, fully traceable and reversible, and neat dystopia features like necessary social credit score to buy booze or geolocked so it can only be spent within your designated economic region instead.
>>84664455Real hard value??????! Thanks for making making my day :DDDD
>>84664906Things really worked so much better before they introduced the idea of fiat. Gold, mithril, electricity, latinum... money only works if it's based on something.
>>84665042money is for exchange not value storage. If you want value storage build your stupid shitty metals, retard.
