Is it about time, or is it still useful? If you think its time has passed, what about the nickel/dime/quarter?

4 points

Only if they round down, and not up. I don’t want to pay an extra 4¢ in tax on everything.

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In Canada it only rounds if you pay cash, credit/debit is still to the penny.

And with cash it rounds up if it’s $8.48 but it would round down if it were $8.47 so it generally averages out. Stores still have things listed for $9.99 rather than $10.00 though which is annoying.

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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.

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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?

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Well, it would round on the total of the transaction and not the item.

Plus you can round both up and down and you will end up with a rough wash over time.

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Nope I use cash almost exclusively.

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5 points

Do you mail your internet provider an envelope full of change?

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Ohhh I wish I could

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Not sure how paying cash would make you want to use pennies, your final at the till will be rounded up or down so that you aren’t paying more than usual over time.

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How is it relevant? Would transactions rounding to the nearest nickel not make it easier for you to carry change?

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Currently you can just get rid of all change, or increase the value of the dollar, by a lot.

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We need to move to mobile payments. Cash is dirty.

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Cashless is class warfare. Some people can’t get bank accounts.

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I guess they can’t participate in the economy if they aren’t participating in society.

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Many jobs still pay in physical checks or cash.

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The people I’m talking about are participating in society ya dingus

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Can we just round everything to the nearest dollar? If something is still cheap enough to be 25 cents then it should only be sold in a pack of 4.

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