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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (14 children)

Meanwhile, if your yearly salary is less than $315,360 it is worth your time to pick up a penny.

mathAssume 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.

[–] Denvil@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's always worth it when you're on the clock.

[–] jimothysupreme@lemmy.org 2 points 20 hours ago

I always poop on company time. If they're going to waste my time with crap, well...

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