Queen Elizabeth II died today at Balmoral
(www.bbc.co.uk)
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What a significant moment in history this is.
Accelerationists, rejoice.
Shit is falling apart faster than even I expected…
While this was of course inevitable, I do not think the timing could be much worse.
The Queen was one of the few things tying together the last 4-5 generations, in “Commonwealth” countries.
I gave “Western” society probably a decade. At this point, I’m not even sure we’ll last that long…
Wonder if they'll take the opportunity to take off the monarch's head from coins?
Yeah, especially considering the Australian dollar has literally only ever had her face on it, since it’s inception!!
I actually don’t know specific details, but I believe that it remains legal tender until the Mint takes it out of circulation (how they decide when to do that, or recoup the cash, I do not know)…
Given inflation here, I actually unironically wouldn’t be surprised if they (sadly) take some of the smaller (silver, like the American dimes and nickels, essentially) coin denominations out of circulation, sooner rather than later, use this as an excuse, and simply don’t replace them…
Unfortunately. I find that rather sad, but it suits their agenda just fine…
We're all going cashless anyway, so it won't matter. It is depressing.