Minimum Wage Machine

Posted by John Farrier in Art, Gadgets, Hacks & Mods on December 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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