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I'll agree on all but one point. The cotton/linen notes feel so much better in the hand than the candy wrapper plastic of Canadian bills. I know it's a dumb rea

I'll agree on all but one point. The cotton/linen notes feel so much better in the hand than the candy wrapper plastic of Canadian bills. I know it's a dumb reason, but I just hate the feeling.

SCUSKU 11mo ago
Plus US dollars just have that smell to them. I wouldn't mind though if we rotated out some of the faces on the bills, e.g. Andrew Jackson
- verdverm 11mo ago
  let's wait a few years before rotating faces to avoid debating another blatantly illegal thing Dear Leader would propose (actually he already did but it was out of the news rather quickly)
- dmd 11mo ago
  You do know who would be the first person to rotate in, don't you.
  - nilamo 11mo ago
    It would obviously be someone as equally legendary as Washington or Jefferson; noted American Paul Bunyan. We can even call them Big Blue Bucks.
  - debatem1 11mo ago
    My politics and his don't line up but I'm not against this. It would be pretty interesting to see the impact on cash usage, and faces on money are pretty archeologically useful-- at least on coins.
- bregma 11mo ago
  Is that what cocaine smells like?
  - khannn 11mo ago
    Cocaine and feces smells like freedom
stevage 11mo ago
Australian here. Barely anyone uses cash anymore. It's weird to see debates about moving towards technology we had 35 years ago which we don't even use anymore.
- jchw 11mo ago
  But, a cashless society is not a panacea. It may be higher tech and more convenient, but it can have significant privacy costs, not to mention the issues with payment card networks engaging in censorship, charging fairly high transaction fees, and pushing the problem of fraud on their networks to every merchant. Considering the payment card network market is seemingly impossible to enter, and governments don't seem to be able or perhaps willing to regulate things, there are ways in which cashless is a downgrade. It would be nice if we could back up and try to resolve some of these issues in a durable by-design way, but sadly it's probably never happening.
- PostOnce 11mo ago
  Electronics continue to fail in severe weather events, and cash keeps working, which is important when we're talking about food.
  - stevage 11mo ago
    Does it? What about weather that stops the ATMs being refilled? Takes a lot of weather to bring down satellite internet...
    - PostOnce 11mo ago
      I wasn't aware the satellites also beamed down power, and that all ATMs were connected to satellites instead of cellular networks or wires. It would also take quite a lot of refilling when everyone in a city needs to use the ATM. We still need to be able to function during weeklong post-storm/flood power outages, which happen with quite some regularity. Here in New Zealand, the most recent weeklong outage in Southland was only last month, primarily due to 200kph winds. Let us not sacrifice everything to the gods of convenience.

I'll agree on all but one point. The cotton/linen notes feel so much better in the hand than the candy wrapper plastic of Canadian bills. I know it's a dumb reason, but I just hate the feeling.

SCUSKU 11mo ago

Plus US dollars just have that smell to them. I wouldn't mind though if we rotated out some of the faces on the bills, e.g. Andrew Jackson

verdverm 11mo ago
let's wait a few years before rotating faces to avoid debating another blatantly illegal thing Dear Leader would propose (actually he already did but it was out of the news rather quickly)
dmd 11mo ago
You do know who would be the first person to rotate in, don't you.
- nilamo 11mo ago
  It would obviously be someone as equally legendary as Washington or Jefferson; noted American Paul Bunyan. We can even call them Big Blue Bucks.
- debatem1 11mo ago
  My politics and his don't line up but I'm not against this. It would be pretty interesting to see the impact on cash usage, and faces on money are pretty archeologically useful-- at least on coins.
bregma 11mo ago
Is that what cocaine smells like?
- khannn 11mo ago
  Cocaine and feces smells like freedom

stevage 11mo ago

Australian here. Barely anyone uses cash anymore. It's weird to see debates about moving towards technology we had 35 years ago which we don't even use anymore.

jchw 11mo ago
But, a cashless society is not a panacea. It may be higher tech and more convenient, but it can have significant privacy costs, not to mention the issues with payment card networks engaging in censorship, charging fairly high transaction fees, and pushing the problem of fraud on their networks to every merchant. Considering the payment card network market is seemingly impossible to enter, and governments don't seem to be able or perhaps willing to regulate things, there are ways in which cashless is a downgrade. It would be nice if we could back up and try to resolve some of these issues in a durable by-design way, but sadly it's probably never happening.
PostOnce 11mo ago
Electronics continue to fail in severe weather events, and cash keeps working, which is important when we're talking about food.
- stevage 11mo ago
  Does it? What about weather that stops the ATMs being refilled? Takes a lot of weather to bring down satellite internet...
  - PostOnce 11mo ago
    I wasn't aware the satellites also beamed down power, and that all ATMs were connected to satellites instead of cellular networks or wires. It would also take quite a lot of refilling when everyone in a city needs to use the ATM. We still need to be able to function during weeklong post-storm/flood power outages, which happen with quite some regularity. Here in New Zealand, the most recent weeklong outage in Southland was only last month, primarily due to 200kph winds. Let us not sacrifice everything to the gods of convenience.