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Breitbrat Ben Shapiro: The Left Won Because They're Big Meanies

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Romantic Heretic1/09/2013 9:10:31 am PST

re: #482 lawhawk

Yeah, there’s a few people complaining that there’s no way you can mint a $1t coin because it would be the size of the Titanic if minted in platinum. That, of course, ignores that the government can set the value of a piece of paper or coin at whatever denomination it sees fit. The Mint sets the price of a coin of a certain size as a quarter dollar, but the value of the actual metal is a few pennies (it’s actually most cost effective for the mint to strike a quarter than a penny, which is an argument to eliminate the penny from circulation due to costs to make).

People like to think that the value of money, or anything for that matter, is ‘real’. But unless you’re measuring something that occurs in the real universe, like matter or energy, all values are imaginary. Even in the exceptions the value system we apply is arbitrary.

As people converting Celsius to Fahrenheit can tell you.