MetaFilter posts tagged with money and cash

Design with Currency

Atreides — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:21:14 -0800

"If the Swiss can do it on a regular basis, why can't we North Americans too." The Dollar ReDe$ign Project believes its time for the United States to switch from the old to something new in the field of American currency. As a result, a contest was developed and submissions accepted. They range from the cultural to the cynical, and a salute to American space achievements to update designs to the present content.

money can't buy happiness? well, actually it might.

krautland — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:37:17 -0800

money can't buy happiness? well, actually it might (NYT). "owning an iPod doesn’t make you happier, because you then want an iPod Touch. Relative income — how much you make compared with others around you — mattered far more than absolute income." That's what the old Easterlin paradox of "money can't buy happiness" is about. Last week, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, two economists presented a rebuttal of the paradox. They argue that money indeed tends to bring happiness, even if it doesn’t guarantee it. David Leonhardt has a nice writeup in the NYT. This post just has to be dedicated to jessamyn.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:59:52 -0800

“I always say that if North Korea only produced conventional goods for export to the degree of quality and precision that they produce counterfeit United States currency, they would be a powerhouse like South Korea, not an industrial basket case.”

Micropayments: just my, er, one cent.

jack_mo — Tue, 09 May 2006 03:00:45 -0800

IndieKarma micropayments: automatically tip the weblogs you favour 1¢ each time you visit. (Via Kottke, perhaps unsurprisingly.)

Mo' money mo' problems

afx114 — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:43:35 -0800

It's all about the Hamiltons. The new US $10 bill makes it's debut on March 2nd, 2006. How will it 'stack up' against other nations' works of art?

Tinfoil wallet.

spazzm — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 20:01:40 -0800

Planning to blackmail a government and ask for the ransom in unmarked bills? Make sure you don't get the new US $20 bills.

Redesigned $20

aladfar — Tue, 13 May 2003 12:36:26 -0800

US Treasury unveils new $20: A joyous day for numismatics! After a few months of delay, we can now carry a bit of color in our billfolds.

The Ubiquitous Tip Jar

FearTormento — Mon, 12 May 2003 14:16:02 -0800

Why does everyone have a tip jar now? And where do you draw the line when it comes to baiting the jar? Starbucks? Take-out counters? Drive-thrus? How about the girl that takes your money and stamps your hand at a nightclub? While tipping is the economy of an underpaid service industry, it seems the jar itself has gotten out of hand and onto every counter with a dollar already conveniently inside.

If it is appropriate for everyone who performs any kind of public service to be entitled to a tip, why aren't we tossing our coin to police officers, teachers, or flight attendants?

theplayethic — Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:53:44 -0800

How geeks can do away with cash and be their own banks. We've been around the topic of alternative economics a few times before on MeFi, but this piece from the reliably clever Shift makes it all clear to me. How you can do it, and why. And it actually suggests that programmers are the best people to manage a new money system. There's even a Bay Area monetary guru to hand. Does this make as much sense to anyone else as it does to me?

debrahyde — Wed, 01 Aug 2001 04:20:30 -0800

A web buck! We got a web buck the other day! No, it's not some kind of ecommerce thing. It's a good ole' dollar bill doing something of a Johnny Appleseed -- traveling around the country like an adventurer. And we get to vicariously watch its progress. Today, we're throwing our where'sgeorge dollar into a lottery fund at work. Where will it go next? Toll booths, bars, and Florida amusement parks seem like popular destinations, but at least one bill's been passed via a stripper! Have you seen a where'sgeorge bill yet?