LJI Friends and Rivals Episode 4: The Death of the Penny

[dreamsreflected]

The penny died off up here some years back, the Canadian mint declared it cost more to make a penny than one was worth. I'm not sure what the exact logic was when they went from $1 bills to coins as that was before my awareness of money, and when the $2's became coins, well that was just a giant joke all around, but that's what we tend to be with

Comments

[prog_schlock]

I'm glad that working at the bar has brought some financial certainty to your life. Rather than a polemic about even though Canadian culture is better in this regard than, say, US culture and how this is an indictment of western culture in general (it is), let me simply applaud you for your creative solution to your problem that day. Sometimes you just have to get to work and your "crime," which is only a crime in the most nit-picky capitalist sense of that term, is no worse than say Jean Valjean taking bread for a hungry person. People need to eat and there should be fewer things that stand between a hungry person and food.

I have Bowie on the mind today, but the obvious song here is this:

[alycewilson]

That ending really packs an impact. I hope things are much better for you now.

[adam_0oo]

You are a really, really good writer.