Pennies are usually never paid attention to. You may see them on the pavement, roads, floors and anywhere basically. Even inside the trash and a lot of people don’t bother to pick them up. 

Though their value doesn’t run any shorter than one cent, it means nothing to many persons. 

It IS worth nothing to a growing number within the nations. 

In fact, among this growing number are the homeless and poor people. 

While some consider a penny to be good luck, others may have a collection. 

You may find that picking up every penny you see can be time-consuming maybe that’s the reason people don’t bother picking them up.

Yet we all know there’s plenty of people that toss their “pennies” or “change” after buying something.  

As the years pass and inflation, tarrifs, and minimum wage increases, pennies are almost irrelevant with how much currency has evolved.

Prices typically range from one cent less than a whole number. For example, one dollar and ninety nine cents, ten dollars and ninetynine cents, or one hundred ninetynine dollars and ninetynine cents. 

On November 12 of 2025, the U.S. Treasury stopped producing new pennies and the banks stopped distributing them shortly after becasue of inventory shortage. 

This leads to questions such as, should pennies remain under legal tender if they are being phased out? 

Should prices still end in ninetynine cents or cents that don’t add up to five or ten, etc?

On my recent visits to stores, I was not given my full amount of change after my transaction. I was told that the reason is because the bank is no longer giving out pennies. 

Could the view of pennies valuing so little mean that people are’nt worth recieving their full change back? 

This poses a greater question about whether the “losing pennies” from folks pockets are adding up for merchants and claimed by the government. 

I deem that soon in time the government will come up with a solution to the current dysfunctional legality of transaction and prices, since what all merchants are going to do is round their prices up. 

The government has to answer to people loosing money every time they shop because they aren’t getting it back. 

Sure maybe once or twice may not be a big deal but everytime people go shopping the same will happen. 

Considering that not everyone uses digital wallets or cards to pay for their purchases. 

One, ten, or a hundred pennies from different shopping visits from one person may not seem a big deal to people but when you add up more than fourtyfive percent of the U.S. population using cash to pay in 2026, that’s a great deal of pennies adding up to aproximately one million and fiftyseven hundred thousand dollars. 

That’s just one penny from each person, now considering as many times each person goes shopping using cash during this dysfunctional legal moment, that sum is literally mulpilied surely in a large, greater number. 

Who’s benefiting from our money, will they pay us back? I believe the government can be utterly delusional but this is calling scam or scheme.