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The machine that charges you to crush your own penny

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You literally provide the raw material and the physical labor by cranking the wheel yourself, yet you still have to pay the machine owner for the sheer privilege of destroying your own currency.

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The machine that charges you to crush your own penny — STACKY / Travel

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