If Elon Musk finds a $100 bill in the street, it isn't worth his time to pick it up
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2026
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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.
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
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.
The dollar sign belongs before the number.
How does this work when the capitalists working hours are zero? You cant divide by 0?
It doesn't imply that he works for it, only that "he" makes that per hour.
That's the secret, their wealth is a permanent division by zero. At a certain point, it's all made up
lemmy.dbzer0.com solves the capitalist problem at least.
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