Re: accessible money
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Gene
But using that argument, making money accessible
when it may not be around much longer can be argued to be spending a good deal
of money to correct a problem that may not exist so it shouldn't be done.
After all, it would be hard to justify making a building wheelchair accessible
if that building were likely to be torn down in two years and it wasn't
providing an essential service.
Paper money is so much more convenient than coins,
that that is why it was adopted in the first place. Accessibility is a
worthy goal, but if accessibility is done at the expense of what is generally a
much better system of doing something for people in general, it's a pyric
victory. Even if you win, the public resentment and ridicule will create
enormous ill will toward the recipients and set the whole cause of acceptance
and integration back significantly.
Gene
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Well, we wouldn't have to learn any more than 5 more coins. They could be differently shaped for ease of accessibility. As far as the jingling, to be honest, less and less people use real money any more. So this may become a moot point anyway. For example, we are getting a group of Starbucks's restaurants locally in the Buffalo, New York area that will accept nothing but credit or debit cards. So I wonder how long there will actually be any so called legal tender any more anyway. On 6/8/2018 11:03 PM, Gene wrote:
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