a nickel (0.05$) costs 14 pennies (0.14$) to make
there is no way coins are that expensive
edit: fuck
So the nickel pays for itself once its changed hands 3 times?
no. physical currencies have a more complex formula on a good “cost vs use” ratio. it’s usually many years of use to justify spending any amount of resources on a physical currency, otherwise the currency would collapse under its own weight of having to create itself
He’s making an economics joke I believe. Econ 101 was a long time ago, so I could be off the mark here, or misremembering, but I believe money is counted every time it changes hands. Alice buys something from Bob for a nickel, Bob turns right around and purchases something from Alice using that same nickel. The nickel is still only worth 5 cents, but its responsible for 10 cents worth of GDP.
Or maybe not, and I’m REALLY misremembering econ 101.
Something something velocity of money something I never took econ 101.
