Party trick: shine a laser through the maple leaf in Canadian currency and it projects the denomination.

Careful when talking about colourful money to Americans. They protect their egos by calling colourful bills Monopoly money.

Source: A Canadian

Someone made a good point regarding accessibility for the blind. In lieu of blind-friendly notes from the mint there's mobile apps and standalone devices that can identify bills for the blind, and embossing stamps that can mark braille numbers on bills. That aside, cash payments are declining toward the inevitable day that all transactions are cashless. Counterfeiting of the dollar has also trended downward over the years, especially in regards to the $100.

It's not reasonable though lol. It's another example of something just about every other country on earth has figured out that "the greatest country on earth" says is too difficult. See: healthcare, chip+pin, tap payments, public transit, vacation time, maternity+paternity leave, etc, etc, etc.

It gets really obnoxious to listen to when put beside the superiority complex the US has

Edit: it's genuinely kind of impressive how Americans have both a superiority complex and an inferiority complex at the same time

Or, we have so many things in this country that need to change that maybe it's not worth the investment in changing what our money looks like.

gotta disagree here. vending machines should take physical money.