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I don’t especially like cash, but I wouldn’t mind it nearly as much if I didn’t have to deal with the inevitable change.
by TylerE 3y ago
I don’t especially like cash, but I wouldn’t mind it nearly as much if I didn’t have to deal with the inevitable change.
- MDWolinski 3y agoWould you like it better if everything was bills? I agree that the change just accumulates and it’s even worse in Euro where 1 and 2 euros are coins.
- AdamN 3y agoIn Europe it's intolerable - it's much nicer in the US with 25 cents being the max denomination for a coin.
- davchana 3y agoThere are coins of Half Dollar & Dollar in circulation.
- jdeibele 3y agoThere are. And you hardly ever see them. On the rare times I was given a modern dollar coin in change, the cashier usually apologized for giving it to me because most Americans don't want them.
- AdamN 3y agoYeah, once every 6-12 months and then you say "neat" and put it in your special coins cup.
- jwells89 3y agoChange probably wouldn’t be so annoying if there were more to use it on, like how there used to be with 25¢ vending machines and such. These days you need a whole handful to buy anything and who wants to be the person holding up checkout lines counting out coins?
- nayuki 3y agoI spend my coins in ordinary cash transactions. What's the problem? If the cashier can give me change, I can give them change.
- 2023throwawayy 3y agoI don’t want to carry around a pouch of coins like a medieval traveler.
- peteradio 3y agoJust put in your fanny pack then.
- 2023throwawayy 3y agoMy fanny pack is already full of grunge cassette tapes.
- citrin_ru 3y agoIn US/UK prices like $5.98 are annoyingly common. Paying in cash you are getting pennies of change and to pay with them one have to collect a lot of coins which inconvenient to carry and takes time to count. When prices are reasonably rounded using cash is more convenient.
- loopdoend 3y agoImagine if businesses could just issue you a legal tender "change bill" that's loaded with x amount of change via RFID or something... maybe one time loadable bills that get stamped with the amount so you know how much it's worth without having to revalidate it on the app. Phones could just pop-up the validated amount when you bring the bill close. Would be cheaper and better than coins. Heck why aren't we able to validate all bills like that? Oh right this would require a microprocessor... oh well.
- avidiax 3y agoI would like to have a maximum value $100 offline capable smart card issued by the government. It's, of course, not physically possible to prevent double spending of an offline smart card (just as it's not physically possible to prevent duplicating a $20 bill), but I think it could be made difficult enough, just as is done with physical currency. People would generally have one of these cards, and use them to make change in cash transactions, or make small purchases outright. The size of a credit card means that this isn't much more of a money laundering concern than a physical $100 bill is, and if the protocols have tight latency requirements, then these cards can't be used remotely, either. Criminals could punch the chip out (just like a nano SIM), but that's still order of magnitude the same as physical currency.
- sparrish 3y agoI've got a 1 gallon glass jug sitting on my bathroom shelf. I dump my change each night in there and when Christmas time comes, I've got ~$250 to buy my kids gifts with. My bank has a change counting machine that I use for free. I don't mind the change at all. It's like a weird little savings account for me.
- TylerE 3y agoThe part I don't like is the "carrying aroundmetallic objects that rattle around all day.".