About the cost of coins, it's not as stupid as it sounds. Money's overall purpose is not to represent assumed value but to make the system function in more predictable/desirable ways. For example, under this system, there will always be a certain portion of people in debt regardless of what cultural changes occur, because there isn't enough money in the system to cover it.
What's stupid, is allowing a system so far removed from our interests to continue to so arbitrarily affect our lives and our cultures. But, you know, what's anyone gonna do.
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