Metaphor time: It costs more than three cents to make a penny, and we must make more and more of them, forever, specifically because they have no use. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/m...

America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny

Few things symbolize our national dysfunction as much as this accursed coin, which we mint by the millions because it’s too worthless to spend.