Correct everything is rounded to the cent anyway, it isn’t much different to round to the nickel or dime for cash transactions and continue to charge at the cent for digital and credit/debit transactions.
Some things like gasoline are priced at the 1/10th of a cent and people don’t seem to have any trouble buying gasoline.
I have to quote Terry Pratchett here:
‘It costs more than a penny to make a penny,’ ■■■■■ murmured. ‘Is it just me, or is that wrong?’
‘But, you see, once you have made it, a penny keeps on being a penny,’ said Mr Bent. ‘That’s the magic of it.’
‘It is?’ said ■■■■■. ‘Look, it’s a copper disc. What do you expect it to become?’
‘In the course of a year, just about everything,’ said Mr Bent smoothly. 'It becomes some
apples, part of a cart, a pair of shoelaces, some hay, an hour’s occupancy of a theatre seat. It may even become a stamp and send a letter, Mr Lipwig. It might be spent three hundred
times and yet — and this is the good part — it is still one penny, ready and willing to be spent again. It is not an apple, which will go bad. Its worth is fixed and stable. It is not consumed.’
Mr Bent’s eyes gleamed dangerously, and one of them twitched. ‘And this is because it is ultimately worth a tiny fraction of the everlasting gold!’
‘But it’s just a lump of metal. If we used apples instead of coins, you could at least eat the apple,’ said ■■■■■.
‘Yes, but you can only eat it once. A penny is, as it were, an everlasting apple.’
‘Which you can’t eat. And you can plant an apple tree.’
‘You can use money to make more money,’ said Bent.
‘Yes, but how do you make more gold? The alchemists can’t, the dwarfs hang on to what they’ve got, the Agateans won’t let us have any. Why not go on the silver standard? They do that in BhangBhangduc.’
Same way I make it now at my store when the power is out or the internet is down. I write down the card number and expiration date and what I sold and the total and then feed it into the system when the power/internet is back up and running. It’s not as fast and convenient as just sliding the card and having the system update the inventory and everything automatically. But it gets the job done.
I don’t see the problem, Silver costs (3) and Gold costs (6), yet both are perfectly fine buys.
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