Funny

I found out something disturbing today. In order for the US mint to create one penny, it costs them two cents. It costs them two cents to make one penny. How can something be worth less than itself? Like if I went to a penny dealer and said "hey i want to buy a penny, how much for that one penny" then he'd be like "two pennies" and I'd be like "Oh, I only have one penny" "i'll buy it from you" "how much?" "....two pennies"... "uhh ok". Let's brake this down, in order for me to have one penny it costs two pennies. But in order for me to have those two pennies I need four pennies, and to have those four I need eight, and it never ends, like if someone came up and handed me a penny then I've just lost all my money. But if I took that penny and threw it into a lake I just made an infinite amount of cash...so the US mint is losing money any time they makes money but if the US mint would just stop making pennies it would make a lot of "cents".