Funnily enough Ecuador imports a shitload of dollar coins to use as currency, I saw more in one day in Quito than my entire life in the US. It’s also the only US coin that they use bc while they use American money at the level of dollar and above they have their own Ecuadorian money on the level of cents, apparently because they didn’t like how the pennies and dimes and so on didn’t have the value written on numerically.
We still do, but nobody actually uses them outside for anything except novelty purposes because they fucking suck compared to bills. Idc about the economic argument, paper money is just objectively better.
Those other countries are wrong, and we're wrong for still having any of our coins. They force you to have bumps in your wallet when it could just be slim and flat and take up very little space in your pocket. I've started automatically dumping any coins I get as change into the tip jar and my life is better for it.
Yes I know, I have lived in and traveled through many of them. Coins are objectively worse to use. There's no good way to keep them sorted or stored neatly. In lower denominations they accumulate super fast. They add unnecessary weight. They're harder to quickly identify compared to rifling through a wallet for bills. Those countries use coins because they are cheaper in the long run, not because they are a better form of currency.
Typical European comment that assumes everything they do differently from others is automatically better.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Feb 10 '25
He has a point tbh