Author Topic: An amusing way to conceptualize your earning rate.  (Read 2301 times)

Glenstache

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An amusing way to conceptualize your earning rate.
« on: October 30, 2014, 06:53:01 PM »
An amusing way to conceptualize your earning rate.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/118/

... and a good use of the MMM back of the envelope to illustrate a point.

Edit: if you over over the cartoons, you get a little extra.
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Re: An amusing way to conceptualize your earning rate.
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2014, 07:30:45 PM »
reminds me of another posting someone did, where they standardized the pay rate of Gates ($10B/year) to how much he made per second (assuming he worked 40hr weeks) - it worked out to to just over $1k a second, and suggested that if he saw a $100 bill lying on the street it wouldn't be worth him time (in lost work productivity) to pick it up.


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Re: An amusing way to conceptualize your earning rate.
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2014, 08:03:36 PM »
 pretty cool.

 

Wow, a phone plan for fifteen bucks!