But who the heck cares if I don't want tens? Plenty of people don't want tens for various reasons and I certainly don't want to have to give everyone a long boring speech as to why I won't take their tens in order to make my point. After all, Hamilton is on the ten and his mercantilist policies are largely responsible for the current American version of neomercantilism. My next plan was to refuse to accept ten-dollar bills. It would definitely get attention, but who wants to carry around a giant - and very heavy - bag full of pennies? Clearly, this was an even worse idea than paying with dollar bills. My next crazy idea was to pay with pennies. Ones are ubiquitous and it is not particularly unusual for people to pay with them. I quickly rejected this idea for obvious reasons. Theoretically, this was to alert people to the declining value of the dollar after all, it takes a surprisingly large stack of ones to pay for most purchases now. My first idea was to pay for everything with one-dollar bills. But how could I both express my discontent and get people to learn that the Fed's printing of trillions is disastrous? I needed to do something dramatic enough to get attention, and interesting, or eccentric, enough to prompt people to educate themselves about monetary policy and price inflation.
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I tossed around a few ideas of how to get others interested. I will now attempt to explain my purely symbolic gesture and the reactions I have received so far.Ī few weeks ago I determined that I should be doing something to express my dissatisfaction with current monetary policy, and get people interested in the topic. I recently decided that I am going to pay for as many things as is practicable using only two-dollar bills.
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