This past week, the gov't released into the wild the new $5 bills. Among the various things they claim is that the newest bill makes it harder to counterfeit, blah blah blah.
I contend that the new bill makes it easier to counterfeit currency. Why?
They keep changing the bills so goddamned often, it's impossible to keep up. Someone could come up to me a year from now and have a totally new design they worked up in Photoshop, and say "Well, that's the new design, I just got it from the bank this morning, crazy huh?" and y'know what -- it'd be believable.
Paper currency hadn't changed that much - visually - for a really long time. Now it seems like it gets a completely new design every couple years, reducing civilian confidence in "what a $5 bill is supposed to look like".
Your gov't at work.....
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