for people who are unfamiliar with "the coin": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
The trillion-dollar coin is a concept that emerged during the United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011 as a proposed way to bypass any necessity for the United States Congress to raise the country's borrowing limit, through the minting of very high-value platinum coins. The concept gained more mainstream attention by late 2012 during the debates over the United States fiscal cliff negotiations and renewed debt-ceiling discussions. After reaching the headlines during the week of January 7, 2013, use of the trillion-dollar coin concept was ultimately rejected by the Federal Reserve and the Treasury.[1]
I know they want to use platinum to make it seem super valuable and rare, but they should just make it out of plastic to emphasize how arbitrary all this shit is.
I'd love to see a movie where Nicholas Cage steals the trillion dollar coin, only to find out it's a standard plastic coin you could get in a toy shop.
Seriously. It’s not like the coin is actually worth a trillion dollars. If you somehow stole the coin it had no value, if you were to ever try and spend or redeem it in any way you’d be arrested.
for people who are unfamiliar with "the coin": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
I know they want to use platinum to make it seem super valuable and rare, but they should just make it out of plastic to emphasize how arbitrary all this shit is.
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lmao
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I truly cannot tell if you're joking.
Edit: does nobody admire a nice patina anymore?
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Are you serious? That's fucking hilarious.
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I'd love to see a movie where Nicholas Cage steals the trillion dollar coin, only to find out it's a standard plastic coin you could get in a toy shop.
And that no one will buy it from you.
It's chocolate and really old chocolate :walter-breakdown:
Seriously. It’s not like the coin is actually worth a trillion dollars. If you somehow stole the coin it had no value, if you were to ever try and spend or redeem it in any way you’d be arrested.
I think a much funnier situation would be for the thief to publicly destroy the coin.
It's entirely conceivable that you could sell it to some rich asshole for millions of dollars. You definitely wouldn't get the "value" of it though
Trillion dollar NFT
Rashida Tlaib called for minting two of them in 2020 to pay for covid relief. IIRC most of which would go to basically a universal basic income.