Thursday, February 2nd, 2006, 4:30 am
The 99 Cent Nuisance
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THINK how much simpler shopping would have been if it were not for that opaque ’99 cent’ (or pence, or whatever) system. Aggregation of numbers should have not become an arduous task involving the combination of many small chunks of money (typically negligible coinage) like 49 and 99 cents. It can become mentally confusing and exhausting as a matter of fact.
Riddance of this deceiving system has great potential if conducted and enforced by a court of law. This simplifies banking and accounting too. Yet again, businesses might argue that it drives away customers elsewhere, so eradication of the system must be mutual and global, through lawmaking. Meanwhile, we are all bound to fall victims to the illusion that we save money. We only lose our minds.
