Should bronze money be scrapped?

Feek said:
I'd be happy to see the end of 1p and 2p coins. No other change are needed. Seeing something priced at £19.99 is stupid, it should be twenty quid.
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I'd rather buy something for £1 than 99p. I don't want a penny change. I'm never going to spend that penny, so it basically leaves circulation.

I'll also add that I don't like the new notes. I used to keep 1-2 folded notes in my very thin wallet, but the new notes don't easily fold, so I don't bother anymore. Only been caught cashless once, but before the new notes that would have been never.
 
angel102 said:
You do realise it's much easier to track spending when you literally have it all at your fingertips 24/7, you can even go back and check what you spent on any day you like going back years, and I'm talking to the penny.
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I have the mental and technical capacity to do this on my own. Paying a third party to do this is extremely uneconomical.

And the bad thing is not only are you paying them extortionate amounts to do basic maths formulas on a computer, you're also centralising everything lol.
 
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asim18 said:
Really? I'm up my own arse for caring and worrying about the entire futures economy?

And the people who are just caring about themselves and how "easy card is" are not up their own arses? Surely you've got the whose up their own arse thing completely wrong. Lmao. :D


Sufficed to say I am wanting future generations to be able to experience the same freedoms and liberties and happiness in life for as many generations as possible. The real "up their own arse" people just want to milk everything now, end all liberties and freedom and set up future generations for catastrophe.
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I want to end freedom and liberty because I use a debit card in Tesco. I've heard it all now.
 
billysielu said:
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I'd rather buy something for £1 than 99p. I don't want a penny change. I'm never going to spend that penny, so it basically leaves circulation.

I'll also add that I don't like the new notes. I used to keep 1-2 folded notes in my very thin wallet, but the new notes don't easily fold, so I don't bother anymore. Only been caught cashless once, but before the new notes that would have been never.
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more often than not I don't even wait for the change when it's that sort of figure. It's worth so little to me that I literally can't be bothered waiting for it.
 
Future of society is a societal effort. You constricting it to your personal actions is just absurd. You are part of a larger force.
 
tbf theres a point in there somewhere.

Making it mandatory to accept card and regulating providers of the facilities to do so would be my preferred option, along with scrapping copper coins.
 
neil_g said:
What exactly is the difference between a bit of paper/polymer or coin that I've got from my bank which deducts from my balance which essentially tells the person I give it to they now have that value they can increase their account balance by giving it to their bank. To a packet of data which is doing the same thing?
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tyranny and despotism apparently.
 
Also wanting the end of liberty and being part of the cause of the end of liberty are two entirely separate things.

People cause things without wanting it all the time.
 
asim18 said:
I have the mental and technical capacity to do this on my own. Paying a third party to do this is extremely uneconomical.
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as do I, I also have the mental and technical capacity to handwash my clothes, but I went and bought a washing machine anyway because frankly it's more efficient and I don't need to worry about rubbing my smalls up and down a washboard every week.
 
Still haven't heard a single logically sound reason for all this.

It's mostly "I can't count" "I can't carry" "I'm too scared to have a £50 in my pocket because black people are outside and they used to steal my lunch money at school" (okay I know the last one is extreme example but such people do exist)

Still haven't heard one good reason.
 
I use a card / contactless for everything unless I have to use cash, which is annoyingly often.

Chip shop, parking (pay and display) and the food van at work are amongst the worst offenders.
 
billysielu said:
one good reason: change ends up in jars. if you don't give people change then the money stays in circulation. that's better for the economy than it being in jars.
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or down the back of the settee for the next 10 years.

Coins and paper money also actually cost money, both to produce, to transport, to count and in the case of coins susceptible to volatile fluctuations in the cost of the metal needed to produce them, which is why you get changes in the alloys used every now and again. The reason notes are also being moved over to the polymer from paper is they last longer, and are much harder to damage, either through general wear and tear or accidents like going through a washing machine in the back pocket of your jeans.

asim18 said:
Still haven't heard a single logically sound reason for all this.

It's mostly "I can't count" "I can't carry" "I'm too scared to have a £50 in my pocket because black people are outside and they used to steal my lunch money at school" (okay I know the last one is extreme example but such people do exist)

Still haven't heard one good reason.
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because it simply works. No matter if you have £18 in your account or £18million. You can still use cash, you can also use cards/contactless phones. It's this incredible thing called choice and convenience. Just like the reason I haven't written a cheque for over 20 years. I don't have to, and I don't need to wait 4 working days for it to clear either.

asim18 said:
Also wanting the end of liberty and being part of the cause of the end of liberty are two entirely separate things.

People cause things without wanting it all the time.
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And you honestly believe that using cards to spend your own money and rampant consumerism is going to bring the downfall of civilization. While posting on a forum hosted by a company that is selling graphics cards at over a grand a pop. That's irony for you.
 
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Getting rid of cash and using cards is all very well, providing that the bank doesn't deny you access to your own money, and the network doesn't go down (like Visa a few weeks ago), and there isn't a war or something, as the first thing to be attacked will be communications.
 
Bigpops said:
Getting rid of cash and using cards is all very well, providing that the bank doesn't deny you access to your own money, and the network doesn't go down (like Visa a few weeks ago), and there isn't a war or something, as the first thing to be attacked will be communications.
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If theres a war cash is hardly going to matter, such irrelevance.

The fact is that eventually they'll just stop printing the stuff, better get used to it and your Banker overlords.
 
StriderX said:
If theres a war cash is hardly going to matter, such irrelevance.

The fact is that eventually they'll just stop printing the stuff, better get used to it and your Banker overlords.
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exactly, money only has value because everyone agrees that it does. The fact technology has evolved to the point that physical paper and metal in exchange for goods and or services simply isn't necessary, and costs more than the alternatives available to us.

Cheques took so long to clear(when people actually used to use them) because it was to give the banks time to verify that person A has the money they say they do in order to pay person B, that is done now in a fraction of a second, instead of the better part of a week, and can be done anywhere in the world, a coffeeshop in St Pancras station or a Superbowl game in the States.
 
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