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totalcount
Penny Sorter Member
USA
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 Posted - 12/01/2009 : 16:30:01
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The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.04 seconds, for $7.15 an hour (NY state minimum wage). If the participant stops turning the crank, they stop receiving money
Of course, by the time you sort out the coppers from the zincs, you'll be making less than minimum wage.
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highroller4321
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2648 Posts |
Posted - 12/01/2009 : 16:43:30
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| Wow some people just have way to much time on their hands. |
Copper Penny Investing
www.portlandmint.com |
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ScottyTX
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
508 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 00:15:26
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| humm, interesting. I'm a bit confused here, are they giving away free money for turning their machine or they just let you use it? Hummm |
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penny4mythoughts
Penny Sorter Member
USA
82 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 00:47:11
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| I think it's a rad art piece personally... |
Los Angeles is the place I call home... |
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dakota1955
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2212 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 04:34:22
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| But if it pays in copper cents you would get twice as much in value. |
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redneck
1000+ Penny Miser Member
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Posted - 12/02/2009 : 04:56:28
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I like...
You only get out of it, what effort you put in it.
Which compared to "I deserve something for nothing",
is a radical idea these days...
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Ember
Penny Sorter Member
USA
27 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 15:11:00
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| Hmmm, I would just hook up a small motor to turn the crank for me. Ingenuity, not laziness ;)Finally get to play El jefe and reap the returns. |
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ronin
Penny Sorter Member
USA
36 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 17:51:58
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| And if we hooked several thousand of these up to dynamos would that be considered "green jobs building the new energy infrastructure"? |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2533 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 17:59:27
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| People are so lazy that they wouldn't even try to make minimum wage doing this. These are the same people who would never find a hundred dollar bill if you put it under a job application. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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twocents
Penny Collector Member
398 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 18:21:41
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| People would never turn this crank. There are too many free, government handouts available. |
Just my two cents! |
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NotABigDeal
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
3890 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 19:21:43
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Originally posted by twocents
People would never turn this crank. There are too many free, government handouts available.
Correct. Easier to sit at home in a baby making factory and collect the check every month. After all, every kid is a raise in pay....
Deal |
Live free or die.
Plain and simple.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your council or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
- Samuel Adams |
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twocents
Penny Collector Member
398 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 21:12:30
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| I propose these be set-up at every city hall, based on some ratio of machines to census population. All welfare and government handouts/subsidies are eliminated. There are no restrictions on who can turn the machine or for how long. You need money, you crank. I would be happy to fund this with my tax dollars. At least I could see where it is going, and there would be the entertainment value. HCBTT and slickeast would be there with Ryedale ACEs at their sides, dropping pennies to sort. |
Just my two cents! |
Edited by - twocents on 12/02/2009 21:18:48 |
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Kurr
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2906 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 21:29:30
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"Free" money coming from "somewhere" being put in container "account" so someone in "the public" with no skill can have meaningless "work" to reap a steady stream, of the least that could have been chosen for them (plated cents vs GAE's) without really having even enough of a wage (the stream) to replace the energy they spend turning the crank and replacement and medical treatment they will need for the reptitive motion/carpel tunnel they will get, let alone live well from and save.
In that machine I see a microcosm of government planning.  
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The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts. Hag 2:8 [/b]
He created it. He controls it. He gave it to us for His use. Why did we turn from sound scriptural currency that PROTECTS us?
KJV Bible w/ Strong's Concordance: http://www.blueletterbible.org/
The book of The Hundreds: http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/boh/bookOfTheHundreds_v4.1.pdf
The Two Republics: http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/docs/THE_TWO_REPUBLICS.pdf
Good reading: http://ecclesia.org/truth/government.html
A number of people are educated beyond, sometimes way beyond, their intelligence. - Tenbears
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
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Posted - 12/02/2009 : 22:22:16
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| Will this be restricted to legal US residents or will illegal aliens get to crank all the machines? |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 22:24:28
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| Hey, I think this cranks out more pennies than sorting them and trying to sell off the copper! |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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Kurr
1000+ Penny Miser Member
2906 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 22:26:04
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Illegals will get a gear reduction so it is .01 every 10 secs. Till they make enough to pay for bus fare home.
Edit: Have illegals turn cranks that are connected to wind/wind (HA, pronounciation play.. 2 points) turbines that create electric that can be sold and split between funding the penny machine and the bus ticket to repatriate them. Immigration and unemployment solved. Everybody wins. Next!! |
The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts. Hag 2:8 [/b]
He created it. He controls it. He gave it to us for His use. Why did we turn from sound scriptural currency that PROTECTS us?
KJV Bible w/ Strong's Concordance: http://www.blueletterbible.org/
The book of The Hundreds: http://www.land.netonecom.net/tlp/ref/boh/bookOfTheHundreds_v4.1.pdf
The Two Republics: http://www.whitehorsemedia.com/docs/THE_TWO_REPUBLICS.pdf
Good reading: http://ecclesia.org/truth/government.html
A number of people are educated beyond, sometimes way beyond, their intelligence. - Tenbears
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Ant
Penny Hoarding Member
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 22:34:19
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| Maybe they would let me dump my zincs there. |
Lovely dimes, the liveliest coin, the one that really jingles. --Truman Capote
Coins are the metallic footprints of the history of nations. --William H. Woodin |
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 22:38:13
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| I wanted to use it as a source for pennies rather than a dump. Just crank out a few bags.. take them home.. and sort out the copper! |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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slickeast
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
2533 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 23:00:04
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HCBTT might show up after Ant leaves. Then he will go home with a bag full of zincs. I guess $7.15 an hour is better than nothing.
There is 24 hours in a day. Put a motor on that sucker and make 171.60 a day or 1201.20 a week. |
You don't have to be the BEST you just have to be.......SLICK
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HoardCopperByTheTon
Administrator
USA
6807 Posts |
Posted - 12/02/2009 : 23:30:36
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| It didn't look like it held very many. You would run it dry in no time. Then you would have to pay somebody 5 or 6 times minimum wage to do the refills. |
If your percentages are low.. just sort more. If your percentages are high.. just sort more.
Now selling Copper pennies. 1.6x plus shipping. Limited amounts available. |
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totalcount
Penny Sorter Member
USA
77 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2009 : 09:45:04
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quote:
Originally posted by Kurr
"Free" money coming from "somewhere" being put in container "account" so someone in "the public" with no skill can have meaningless "work" to reap a steady stream, of the least that could have been chosen for them (plated cents vs GAE's) without really having even enough of a wage (the stream) to replace the energy they spend turning the crank and replacement and medical treatment they will need for the reptitive motion/carpel tunnel they will get, let alone live well from and save.
In that machine I see a microcosm of government planning.
Since it is "art" and, I suspect, social commentary, your impressions are probably what the artist intended. |
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vrbsroma
Penny Collector Member
394 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2009 : 16:04:26
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| quite the social experiment, forget art piece! |
As far as I know, it is stated "In God We Trust" on the US dollar. How can I trust this currency if I do not believe in God?
Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
When I give my two cents, they're always copper! |
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bman
Penny Collector Member
USA
425 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2009 : 16:48:16
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they need to connect a alternator to the crank and produce electricity with it  |
check out my coins for sale on ecrater : http://bmanscoinsforsale.ecrater.com/ |
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uthminsta
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
1872 Posts |
Posted - 12/03/2009 : 17:28:31
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How about this interpretation:
No matter how hard you work or whether you do the very least possible, it still pays the same. Some people work their butts off, and get paid the same as the guy next to them who slacks off all day.
I would also be curious to know - what's the longest someone has actually stayed there cranking that thing? Which would lead me to think: Sometimes, no matter how much you get paid, if the job seems pointless, or if it's terribly repetitive, people won't do it long.
But this is awfully clever. I would love to have one. I would gladly fill it up with my zincs and when people came over to the house I would let 'em crank on it. Amazing conversation piece. |
Come to the new and improved realcent: http://realcent.org
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marine70
Penny Pincher Member
USA
150 Posts |
Posted - 12/04/2009 : 08:52:36
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| Since I retired I guess you could say I am a minimum wage penny machine. Heck I just have too much time on my hands. I might as well be sorting pennies. |
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Tourney64
1000+ Penny Miser Member
USA
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Posted - 12/04/2009 : 09:41:17
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It could be an unemployment machine. Make people filing for unemployment to crank it for their unemployment pay. Would be an incentive to get off unemployment pretty quickly.
I don't want to offend anyone - I feel sorry for anyone that has to go on unemployment. My son has been on it for the last 3 months. There is less and less incentive for him to find work, since the government is providing for him. He has decided to not even look for work, and I think he could find a job. |
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