Harriet Tubman will be on the $20 bill-- $10 and $5 bills changing, too

[sir dooble]

sorry double post
but they do update the bills every year to counter counterfeiting
new security features are added constantly

Of course. But regular redesigns add an entirely new level of security that counterfeiters have to catch up too, alongside new watermarks and seals and things.

[Ad Bot]

[ABlockOfCheese]

What the hell, seriously? That might just be the worst, most forgeted up possible attitude towards the Trail of Tears.
"Yeah, we should commit this horrible attrocity because they're going to be conquered anyway!"
That would be like saying the Holocaust was okay because all those Jews were going to die anyway, or the Great Purge was okay because Stalin's famines were okay because those people would eventually be hungry regardless, or that it was okay for Prussia and Russia to partition Poland because they would be annexed eventually. No, actually, it's worse than that, because it's not even necessarily true that those tribes would be conquered. The tribes in the 1800s weren't in an active war against each other. And then you're going back and saying it was okay because it wasn't "unprecedented." Again, that's like saying the Holocaust was okay because it wasn't unprecedented - there was the Armenian genocide. Obviously the Trail of Tears isn't nearly as atrocious as this brown townogy, but it shows the flaw in your logic.

Sounds a lot like Social Darwinism to me.

i never said it was ok, I'm simply stating that given the goals of the superior force, it was the best balance between practicality and humanity.  If the goal had been to just get rid of them, it would've been an all out slaughter rather than relocation.  Also social Darwinism, as evil as it may seem, makes a lot of sense when you are considering societies that put their own interests over the interests of other societies.  There is always going to be a top dog, just so happens the natives weren't it.

[Toxicology]

oh my loving god stop changing my goddamn money

[Lord Tony®]

Who uses physical money anymore. We should be working on digital money.

[Drydess]

Who uses physical money anymore. We should be working on digital money.

credit

[McJobless]

Who uses physical money anymore. We should be working on digital money.

"Digital Money" is just a representation of the physical assets on hand. If we were to switch to a completely digital system, there's no accountability for banks or individuals trying to inflate their numbers and cheat the system, and it'd be very difficult to assess the amount of cash in the economy in order to adjust inflation correctly.

[Foxscotch]

"Digital Money" is just a representation of the physical assets on hand.

lol that would be really neat wouldn't it

[otto-san]

money these days doesn't really represent anything other than its numerical value

and actually most of the currency in the economy is digital. we don't just circulate money around, it's mostly all just numbers flowing between accounts. and banks create that money on their own when they make loans from their savings

[SteveJenkins]

>checks currency exchange

*australia crying in the distance*

[McJobless]

>checks currency exchange

*australia crying in the distance*

It's alright, at least we won't reach the depths of 1.0AUD buying 0.5USD...right?

[Mr.X98]

I really don't care who replaces Jackson. The list of people who are more evil than Andrew Jackson is very short.

[Tayasaurus]

Yeah its dumb but in the end its just a picture on a set of bills. I care more about the value than i care about who's on it.

[Biostorm]

we need to have a million dollar bill with Annoying Orange on it

[Plethora]

The list of people who are more evil than Andrew Jackson is very short.

The Trail of Tears was indeed horrible, and I won't claim anything better than a mixed legacy for Jackson.

But from a purely numerical standpoint, the Trail of Tears claimed the lives of about 4,000 Cherokee, but let's bump that number up to 25,000 for the sake of argument, a drop in the bucket of evil acts perpetrated against native populations by Americans, a smaller drop compared to what Europeans as a whole have done, and a molecule of what conquerors as a whole have done.  That doesn't justify it, but it does put it in perspective.

To say that there's a short list of those more terrible than Jackson goes farther than is reasonable and ignores that he was all for enfranchising the common man and rooting out corruption (although in practice neither of those worked out quite right).

[WaterOre]

we need to have a million dollar bill with Annoying Orange on it

it has to be smaller than the other dollar notes