Carrying an actual wallet all the time is pretty inconvenient, but honestly, I’ve been considering getting back into cash for 2 reasons: 1) If more people use cash, it’s harder to legislate it away altogether and 2) so small-time vendors don’t have to pay taxes. I don’t mean the local grocery store (the big chains get audited anyway), I mean the person with a stall selling homemade smoked sausages in front of a store, or the guy by the road who sells smoked fish from the nearby lake.
Also euro banknotes don’t have people on it to avoid the whole paedo glorification thing, so that’s cool
And while the monarchist EU countries do stamp their monarchs on their coins, there’s more than enough decent and interestin people on other country’s variants.
Like Austria stamping Mozart and Bertha von Suttner (first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Price).
Or Croatia putting up Nikola Tesla, a Serb from Croatia, on some of their coins, likely to provoke Serbia. Or perhaps to symbolize unity between Croatians and Serbians but I frankly doubt that.
Or France recently creating coins with three important French women on the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins: Simone Veil, Josephine Baker, and Marie Curie.
Greece put up a couple people who were instrumental in Greek’s fight for independence and, more notably to Europe as a whole, the mythical Princess Europa riding on Zeus - the literal symbol of pan-Europeanism is on Greek’s 2€ coin.
And that’s just a sample, there’s even more. Largely (ignoring the monarchies) people who genuinely deserve to be looked up to - or at least respected - are on the coins that have a person on them.
Carrying an actual wallet all the time is pretty inconvenient, but honestly, I’ve been considering getting back into cash for 2 reasons: 1) If more people use cash, it’s harder to legislate it away altogether and 2) so small-time vendors don’t have to pay taxes. I don’t mean the local grocery store (the big chains get audited anyway), I mean the person with a stall selling homemade smoked sausages in front of a store, or the guy by the road who sells smoked fish from the nearby lake.
Also euro banknotes don’t have people on it to avoid the whole paedo glorification thing, so that’s cool
Yup.
And while the monarchist EU countries do stamp their monarchs on their coins, there’s more than enough decent and interestin people on other country’s variants.
Like Austria stamping Mozart and Bertha von Suttner (first female recipient of the Nobel Peace Price).
Or Croatia putting up Nikola Tesla, a Serb from Croatia, on some of their coins, likely to provoke Serbia. Or perhaps to symbolize unity between Croatians and Serbians but I frankly doubt that.
Or France recently creating coins with three important French women on the 10, 20 and 50 cent coins: Simone Veil, Josephine Baker, and Marie Curie.
Greece put up a couple people who were instrumental in Greek’s fight for independence and, more notably to Europe as a whole, the mythical Princess Europa riding on Zeus - the literal symbol of pan-Europeanism is on Greek’s 2€ coin.
And that’s just a sample, there’s even more. Largely (ignoring the monarchies) people who genuinely deserve to be looked up to - or at least respected - are on the coins that have a person on them.