Minimum Wage Machine

[Are_grits_groceries]

On one hand it looks like it’s considerably more monotonous than working at a greasy spoon or even McD’s, but at least this Minimum Wage Machine, designed by Blake Fall-Conroy, is steady, reliable work. That is until the Plexiglas box full of pennies runs out. From its creator:

"The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money. The machine’s mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box."

All that’s missing is Raymond Scott’s Powerhouse playing in the background.
http://www.ohgizmo.com/

This sums up minimum wage work pretty accurately.

[zbdent]

1. shouldn't it technically yield less than $7.15?

I mean, gotta pay those social security taxes, too ... unless you can crank out more than $109K from that machine ...

[Javaman]

2. nothing says the money is all yours just because you crank it out...

;)