Essays on Penny Debate

One highly debated piece of work in philosophy is Stephen Yablo’s “A thing and its Matter.” In this work, Yablo gives his stance on object pluralism and uses a penny as his example. The penny used in his work is a rare penny that is…

The penny should be abolished, and no longer be accepted as currency, because it costs more to produce the penny than what it is actually worth, and its value is too low. The value of the penny is too small to be useful. When people…

According to an old superstition, it’s good luck to find a penny on the sidewalk. But whether or not you believe picking up that penny will bring you luck, one thing it definitely won’t bring you is wealth. Pennies are worth so little now that…

I think we all have dealt with having to wait in line at a grocery store or at a coffee shop and having to just stand there while somebody counts out each and every cent. Not to mention the constant hassle these coins cause. They…

Should We Keep the Penny? The price of zinc has soared over the course of the last few years, and with that the price to produce the penny has gone up. The U.S. Mint reports that it costs nearly 1.6 cents to product one single…

Will the penny survive? During recent years there has been significant debate over whether to keep the penny as part of the US currency or to discontinue production of the penny. Every year the United States Mint produces around 12 billion new pennies, but 6…