Does $0.25 a minute sound good as a pay for labor?

To me, it sounds better per hour, because that’s how most jobs list pay.

As far as being paid per minute, I know a ton of companies and people that wouldn’t make much money if that was the case. It would be an interesting experiment!

sports and emergency personnel and military? don’t work 100% of the time. There is a lot of dead time in a sporting event, which is why an American football game of 60 minutes on the clock takes over three hours, and only 11 men on a squad of 50 are on the field at any given time.

Cops hangout in donuts shops, firemen sleep at the forestation, paramedics hang out waiting for a call. The military only works while on patrol, and then they get a ton of downtime.

The only ones I know who get paid for increments less than an hour are lawyers, who bill for every tenth of an hour.

A math teacher works 100% of the day, for 80% of his work week.
What time does his aunt arrive in Paris, considering she travels at 120mph, and hates her nephew?

Back in the stone age when I worked at McDonald’s we were told were were getting paid to work, not stand around and talk. If there were no customers we were to find something to do – clean tables, fill hoppers, arrange supplies, clean machines, read service manuals, etc. – not stand around playing with the fire extinguishers or BSing with each other.
Today, employees would be playing with their phones or getting sucked into the FB rabbit hole.

Unsurprisingly it turned out that supervisors noticed who worked and who didn’t and within a few weeks the ones who worked and showed initiative were given a small raise relatively quickly. They were offered more hours and sometimes a step-up position.
The ones who stood around and needed to be told what to do got very little to none and complained about how unfair it was. They never looked in the mirror.

When I worked on the ambulance we did very little for 40% of our day spent eating sleeping reading or watching TV. 40% of the day was spent training and checking equipment. 15% was action and 5% was shear terror.

$15 per hour? Sounds about right…
Inflation will make it nominal at some point.

Both sound lousy.

The wealthiest nation on the planet, and you’ve people fighting for pitiful crumbs.

And almost no one works “100%” outside of sweatshops in poor countries, but the lower paid jobs tend to be more intensive and non-stop.

The “goofing around” is for more generously paid white collar work.

@rebbel She arrives in Paris at 3:46pm on June 23rd, 2021, on a SNCF high-speed train, because her nephew lives in Paris, but will be out of town for the week, so she can attend the International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics in Paris on June 24–26.