If dealing with the absence of the penny were straight-forward, then there would be no real discussion about it today. We'd already be moving along [mostly!] according to the new, published normal and things would be a snoozefest.
But there is no guidance provided. Accordingly, we get discussions.
I would like to present this indeterminable discussion (from several days ago) as evidence of the kinds of differing opinions that a lack of planning and guidance brings forth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901904
This is the kind of discussion that the dust should have settled on years ago.
I don't get it, what guidance do you really require? Do you think there will be some major cartel by the retailers to rip the costumers off, at maximum, 0.04 cents of a dollar per every purchase in the absolute worst case scenarios?
Will we have major lawsuits about it? "Latest news: Costumer sues Walmart for 1 billion USD for rounding a 157.01$ bill to 157.05$"
Last night, I paid $13.00 for a pizza that was priced at $12.99. This does not faze me at all.
But there absolutely are people who complain about this kind of thing. I don't have to understand it in order to recognize it, and nor do you: Neither of us were born yesterday, and we've both been in line behind people with these proclivities at the checkout counter ourselves -- observing them argue over literal pennies.
A lack of guidance cannot serve to quell these conflicts.
> Will we have major lawsuits about it? "Latest news: Costumer sues Walmart for 1 billion USD for rounding a 157.01$ bill to 157.05$"
Will we have a discussion that is free of superfluous and undue hyperbole?
But, that’s the thing. Hyperbole is the only way of doing this an issue. Like you said with your example, any minimally functional citizen won’t have any trouble with this.
It might be said that it is true that you can't reason a person out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into -- even with the use of hyperbole.
But I am not unreasonable. I arrived where I am rationally.
And hyperbole here simply injects misguided, disingenuous noise into our interactions where no noise is necessary at all.
Don't sell yourself short. If I can discuss it without going hyperbolic, then so can you.
But there is no guidance provided. Accordingly, we get discussions.
I would like to present this indeterminable discussion (from several days ago) as evidence of the kinds of differing opinions that a lack of planning and guidance brings forth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901904
This is the kind of discussion that the dust should have settled on years ago.