Thursday, February 07, 2013
The Advantage to Living in Canada
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I will miss the penny, I really will. And Canadians are sometimes too subservient to authority. But I have to say that one clear advantage to living in Canada is that reasonable societal changes like this one (and the metric system, and gay marriage, and the adoption of OHIP) are not routinely derailed by breathtakingly insane opposition that resorts to rhetoric like "lies from the pit of hell".
Jeffrey Shallit
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American mathematician, professor of computer science at a major Canadian university, & skeptic.
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6 comments:
I must say, having moved from Australia (which phased out 1c and 2c coins from 1992) to the UK, where I still have to deal with pennies, I much prefer life without them.
I do miss the frill-neck lizard on the 2c coin though.
Pennies provide some kind of stabilization in the economy. As soon as they go, prices go up. This has been proven to be true in Europe, and in Sweden. Initially, European Union had 1 and 2 c coins. They are gone now. In Sweden, 1 krona is divided in 100 öre. But the öre coins were abolished a couple of years ago. Prices are still quoted as 427.95 kronor (or, rather, 427,95 kronor--they prefer comma in place of a period and period in place of comma) but are rounded up or down to the closest integer. Slowly, however, prices will increase and become equal to the ceiling function of the current price.
If you think that Canadians are subservient to authority, you have no idea what Swedes are like. They will do anything as long as the government says so. No questions asked, ever.
I don't know anything about Sweden - but I have lived in Canada for about 22 years now. There's even a book: Deference to Authority: The Case of Canada, by Friedenberg.
Canada has a decimal money system. So no update will be reasonable unless it removes the entire cents column (goodbye nickel and quarter, hello rarely-seen 50c piece) not just the cent coin, and not just for cash transactions.
Also, how reasonable is this new plastic currency? Received from the bank, the bills (hundreds, fifites, twenties) stick together seamlessly, and can be difficult to pry apart, so if you aren't careful, you can pay with two of the same bill, when you think you're using only one.
Shouildnt it be: Advantage of. ...
Takis:
I don't see how
"Pennies provide some kind of stabilization in the economy"
follows from what you wrote. How are "prices slowly increasing and becoming equal to the ceiling function of the current price" a sign of a destabilized economy?
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