Samuel Delany, in one of his autobiographical works, commented that upon entering a "miscegenistic" relationship and marriage with Marilyn Hacker, many people warned them that they would encounter many problems due to being a "mixed-race" marriage. He said, however, that the biggest problem they ever encountered was that people were constantly tell them that they would encounter problems.
Similarly, retailers don't like to give dollar coins as change because they think consumers won't want them - and consumers won't spend them because they think retailers will not accept them.
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