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
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.
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This probably still pays better than organ grinding. Organ grinding without the dancing monkey anyway, those guys make the big bucks.
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I would hook up a gear system with pedals to this and give my self a raise!
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Gosh, suddenly minimum wage jobs seem a lot like rats pressing levers for food pellets.
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