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If Elon Musk finds a $100 bill in the street, it isn't worth his time to pick it up
Meanwhile, if your yearly salary is less than $315,360 it is worth your time to pick up a penny.
math
Assume picking up a penny takes one second. There are 31536000 seconds in a year (roughly, let's not get into leap seconds). Multiply that by $.01, the value of a penny. Then you get the salary such that across the year you're making a penny every second. A caveat to this is that even if you're making more than this you need to debate what "worth your time" means because it's still a penny you wouldn't have either way, but I think this is enough to illustrate the wealth gap.Small edit: To add to that last point, what I mean is that it's not like you stop earning your yearly salary while you're picking up a penny.
Picking up a penny takes way longer than one second! At least 5, if it includes stopping, and even longer if you check it out and put it in your wallet!
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Although a dog may have peed on it, so wash your hands!
source: owner of a dog that proudly pees on any foreign item on the street.
If you're making less than $300k, can you really complain about your money covered in dog piss? /s hopefully obviously lol
I mean to be fair, you wouldn't be getting paid $315,360 for a years worth of work, you'd be getting paid $315,360 for 7.488 million seconds in a year (ish, 40 hour weeks, no missed days)
So really to have picking up a penny in one second be "worth" your time, you'd only have to be making $74,880 a year or less
Man, I'm not gonna math that out myself; but that sounds more realistic and I choose to believe you
Yeah bro I was thinking like I don’t make 300k a year and I still don’t pick up pennies…
It's always worth it when you're on the clock.