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>ripped $20 bill This is a hilarious problem to anyone who has been using polymer bills for nearly a decade.
by soperj 7y ago
>ripped $20 bill
This is a hilarious problem to anyone who has been using polymer bills for nearly a decade.
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- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoUm, polymer bills rip too.
- soperj 7y agoonly if they're cut. In practice I can tell you how many ripped bills I've dealt with since we've had them. 0.
- pasquinelli 7y agoI can only think of one ripped dollar i've ever had and it's because i happen to have it in my wallet right now.
- stuaxo 7y agoThe plastic money introduced in the UK can rip. Once it has a small tear, it very easily tears the rest of the way. Once it is folded it never goes flat again. They also feel really cheap.
- shawabawa3 7y ago> They also feel really cheap. I thought that at first. Now the old ones feel really cheap to me. I guess you just get used to it
- dwd 7y agoDon't forget the dreaded crease that causes it to not be accepted by vending machines, supermarket self-serves, etc.
- soperj 7y agolol. You guys are really sensitive about your shitty money.
- labster 7y agoAmerican money doesn’t degrade into microplastics which pollute our oceans, but is made of artisanal paper made by only a few fine craftsmen.
- garmaine 7y agoCotton. Artisanal cotton/linen hybrid.
- konceptz 7y agoDirect loom to table.
- ethbro 7y agoLoom to farmer to table.
- _archon_ 7y agoI had been under the impression that it's a hemp/linen mix... Nope. From [1]: Federal Reserve Notes are made of 75% cotton and 25% linen fibers. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Note
- tobyhinloopen 7y agoWhat’s happening? Am I on reddit?
- toxik 7y agoJust use cards. They don't tear. -Scandinavia
- badpun 7y agoI keep my credit card in the back pocket of my trousers (like I would keep cash). I need to reorder the card every 3-12 months from the bank, as the chip breaks from sitting on it.
- sneak 7y agohttps://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/ https://www.wired.com/2010/12/realtime/ https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wikileaks-visa-blockade/ https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wikileaks-visa-blockade/ Blanket, universal surveillance as well as zero-burden-of-proof government point-and-click seizure/disablement is the cost. You cannot have a free society without a payment system that the government or a few large banks do not have the ability to arbitrarily censor, even temporarily. You can not communicate or organize anonymously (for example, for political organization or government corruption investigative journalism) when every payment you need to do so is logged as a matter of course. These activities are not common, but essential to a free society. The ability to transact in things the government does not like, without their knowing about it, is a cornerstone of freedom. Many other human rights crumble if you do not preserve it.
- toxik 7y agoHyperbole. People will trade freely if they need to. Cash is not what prevents tyrants from coming to power, democratic societal structures do. Elections do. Having an educated population does. Cash didn’t save anyone from tyrannical rule.
- sneak 7y agoLack of cash usage or ability to transact with it has absolutely curtailed people's freedom, though. Privacy is a human right! There is virtually zero electronic financial privacy in the global west today. Everything is surveillance-by-default.