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Taxes and contracts can a big impact on the people they affect, though. A typo on a bank note has no direct effect on any users. It's an aesthetic problem, not
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
Taxes and contracts can a big impact on the people they affect, though. A typo on a bank note has no direct effect on any users. It's an aesthetic problem, not a functional one.
- SilasX 7y agoReally? Isn't it going to throw a lot of false positives when people try to spend them and the cashier thinks that the misspelling means it's counterfeit?
- was_boring 7y agoDid it though? It's been in circulation for years.
- SilasX 7y agoI thought the version with the typo was recent?
- was_boring 7y agoYears is probably an over statement on my part. A second read indicates probably a year and half.
- fivefive55 7y agoYou really think any cashier is going to read the microtext on every bill they get? You practically need a magnifying glass just to see the typo. It's an absolute non-issue no matter what way you spin it.
- PhasmaFelis 7y ago46 million bills were in circulation for 8 months before the first person even noticed the typo, so probably not, no. I've been a cashier, and trust me, we had more important things to do than examine bills with a magnifying glass looking for spelling errors. If a bill seemed suspicious at a quick glance, I swiped it with the counterfeit detector pen, and if it came out fine, I shrugged and put it in the register.