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0 pointsars9y ago0 comments

That failed because people don't like to carry coins, they prefer bills.

In the UK they don't have a 1 pound bill, forcing people to only use coins.

Coins are cheaper for the government since they last much longer.

So if you were a government, which would you pick: What your people want, or what's cheaper for you?

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Note that the people often may directly want one thing, but also want indirectly what is cheaper for government, since they also usually don't want to pay more taxes, and do want government to do things.ib other domains that are constrained if it spends more than necessary in the domain under immediate consideration.

Government officials really have no other reason to care about "cheaper for government", since it's not their money anyway.

tyingq9y ago

I wasn't implying that because it failed, that the £1 Coin would fail. I mentioned "failed" so that non-US readers would know it's not popular.

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