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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
I wonder how much the leave-a-penny-take-a-penny system contributed to spreading viruses like the flu. Now that it's essentially dead, thanks first to the debit card and now doing away with the penny, I wonder if there's a non-trivial reduction in flu rates?
Also, was there an anthropological benefit to the system that we've lost. Does LAPTAP (lol lap tap) have a cultural benefit? Sense of community?
Someone write a book: The Death of The Penny