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Comment by ireflect

6 hours ago

Finally!

Here is a delightful article from NYT from last year on this topic. Truly fascinating and bewildering.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennie...

> Finally... NYT from last year... Truly fascinating and bewildering

Yeah, really bewildering, happiness inflated by inflation.

> When Robert Whaples, an economist at Wake Forest University, published an article in 2006 about the imperative to eliminate America’s 1-cent coin, he received a personal note: “Get it done, and you will deserve the Nobel Prize!”

Everything makes sense now...