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Minimum Wage Machine

By John Farrier in Arts & Crafts, Gadget on Dec 1, 2009 at 8:56 am


Minimum Wage Machine by artist Blake Fall-Conroy spits out $7.15 per hour in pennies as a person turns the crank. Fall-Conroy writes to Make:

In the future, I see possibility in a lot of these machines hooked into a grid, with people performing basic human labor for money. Perhaps a new form of renewable energy generation? A new kind of supercomputer with thousands of people performing basic calculations at minimum wage “stations” across the world? Who knows?

More pictures and technical details at the link.

Link | Artist’s Website | Image: Blake Fall-Conroy


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  1. Gauldar
    Dec 1st, 2009 at 10:49 am

    My eyes must have jumped around the first time I skim read over the title and I somehow read "Minimum Wage War Machine". It must have been one of those weird fill in the blank with what looks right SNAFU moments. I need coffee.

  2. Scooter
    Dec 2nd, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    This probably still pays better than organ grinding. Organ grinding without the dancing monkey anyway, those guys make the big bucks.

  3. C.A.
    Dec 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    I would hook up a gear system with pedals to this and give my self a raise!

  4. Quinno
    Dec 5th, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    Gosh, suddenly minimum wage jobs seem a lot like rats pressing levers for food pellets.

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