It looks like its soley based on time and not rotations per hour
Even if you cranked hella fast it would only give a penny every 4 seconds.
Same if you hardly cracked at all, not even doing a full rotation you'd only get that sad penny after 4 seconds
Crank it slow, less effort. Crank it fast, more effort. Same prize. THAT'S a good metaphor. In the end, you're probably doing a more difficult job for the pay.
One of tha he most effective forms of torture is making someone repeat a meaningless task over and over (example Sisyphian task). So this is hardly a brilliant machine and more of a slight of hand to associate torture with minimum wage. Its a psychological trick, not a "great example".
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Hypothetically, if you doubled min wage and the pennies came out every two seconds the rate at which people quit would hardly change.
Also, if people were to turn that crank and know it is for a living, I'm sure they would shut up and accept it. They probably just dont have the time to be fooling around
Iiii'm pretty sure I'd enjoy that machine more than "wipe the tables. Oh, shit, the bathroom got dirty. Clean the bathroom. Okay, wipe the tables, they're all dirty again - wait, that kid got ketchup WHERE in the playplace? Ohhhhh, this is not ketchup." Slightly lower degree of repetition, equal meaninglessness of task, and the crank is less likely to stick my hand in toddler shit.
My min wage job is literally just a repetitive loop “how are you today? Your total is ——. Are you a member? It’s (the POS) ready when you are. Have a nice day, thank you”
Conceptually, raising the min wage is a boost for lower income people. In reality it doesnt work that way. The people at the top know this but they campaign on it anyway for voting base reasons.
People dont understand that if the entire country boosted min wage to $15 the economy would fuck up. Everything would almost double in price to compensate. So in the end you would still be making $7.50 an hour.
The only thing this makes an argument for is that people can be quite dim witted. If I made a machine that would build a house if you cranked it for 30 years, how many people would stand there cranking it? If this machine gave out a penny a second, how long could they afford to run it? Since millions are paid minimum wage, could the artist afford to make millions of these for each person, and pay health coverage and insurance for anyone who used them? If you don't want to crank the machine, is it because the money isn't worth your free time, or because youdit have time because you are busy? Since we can't control what things cost, why does it matter what minimum wage is if there's no maximum price? If you worked up from the bottom over years to make $15 an hour, and they start paying every new trainee the same, will they give you a raise so you are still being compensated, or are you now as valuable as an entry level new hire? This is a cute stunt that falls apart on scrutiny.
Minimum wage in my country is 530€ per month (on a 40-hour week basis), and about 20% of the employed population makes minimum wage.
Average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment outside the capital is about 300€. Inside the capital it's twice that.
There is a (rather) strong belief among politicians and businessmen that minimum wage should be abolished because "it encourages people not to work harder because they already make enough money to live on". lol. of course, those who say it do not live on 530€/month...
Even if you cranked hella fast it would only give a penny every 4 seconds.
Same if you hardly cracked at all, not even doing a full rotation you'd only get that sad penny after 4 seconds
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Hypothetically, if you doubled min wage and the pennies came out every two seconds the rate at which people quit would hardly change.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/26/new-study-casts-doubt-on-whether-a-15-minimum-wage-really-helps-workers/
Average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment outside the capital is about 300€. Inside the capital it's twice that.
There is a (rather) strong belief among politicians and businessmen that minimum wage should be abolished because "it encourages people not to work harder because they already make enough money to live on". lol. of course, those who say it do not live on 530€/month...