I HATE PENNIES!!!! (Also Nickels.)

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In which John Green discusses his virulent hatred for pennies and nickels, two utterly irrelevant coins that inexplicably remain money in the United States of America. It costs more than 1.7 cents to make a 1 cent penny coin in the US; nickels are even more ridiculous, costing more than nine cents to produce.

UPDATE: Those statistics are out of date. In 2009, it cost 1.6 cents to make a penny and 6.1 cents to make a nickel; the US Mint lost 22 million on penny and nickel production, not the 70 million they lost in 2008. (This is because the recession has made zinc and nickel cheaper.) Thank to youtuber http://www.youtube.com/sivartis for the correction.

My inflation calculations came from the CPI inflation calculator: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

Information about the opportunity cost implications of pennies and the calculations of lost productivity can be found here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/... and here: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04...


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[KayleeDavisBlueBox]

Okay, here's my new dream: buy a nerdfighter gadget at a con or something... and pay with pennies and nickels.

[Hunter Bennett]

We should use bottle-caps...

[RawrMeaghan]

I've been hearing a lot of reasons why pennies (and now also nickels) are worthless and I feel like there has to be something we can do about it. Who can we write letters to about the death of useless change?

[veron1995]

My school newspaper wrote an article about why penies suck. But they quoted Obama from the google chat thing. Not John from all of the videos he's done!

[dancingapplez]

i always tell cashiers to keep the change or i just walk out a penny is not worth my time or the cashiers time

[Robert Kidd]

We only have $0.50 $0.20 and $0.10 here in NZ. :)

[daemoszythaer]

Cat scratch your nose?

[theandrew1127]

what about penny pressers!

[iraklismg]

Pickles are made of Pennies and Nickels.....true story