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by Spooky23 4545 days ago
The government doesn't want to make money transfer and settlement easier. Why do you think the highest denomination of currency is $100?

We literally ship jumbo-jets full of $100 bills abroad so that foreign banks can maintain adequate reserves. If we cared about this, we'd print $10,000 bills. The system as it stands funnels movement of large amounts of money, which eases tax collection and other enforcement measures.