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If Elon Musk finds a $100 bill in the street, it isn't worth his time to pick it up
Idk, I think he'd pick it up because it's liquid wealth. The majority of his wealth is tied to the speculative market. I'm uncertain how much he could even make cashing his winnings out of the Stockmarket. Assuming he withdrew all assets and liquidated them. I'm sure it would be a ridiculous amount still.
If you have $100,000, then $1 is worth about as much to you (relative to your net worth) as $1,000,000 is to someone with $100,000,000,000...
Let that sink in, and then ask yourself why billionaires don't pay more taxes...
Meanwhile, if your yearly salary is less than $315,360 it is worth your time to pick up a penny.
math
Assume picking up a penny takes one second. There are 31536000 seconds in a year (roughly, let's not get into leap seconds). Multiply that by $.01, the value of a penny. Then you get the salary such that across the year you're making a penny every second. A caveat to this is that even if you're making more than this you need to debate what "worth your time" means because it's still a penny you wouldn't have either way, but I think this is enough to illustrate the wealth gap.Small edit: To add to that last point, what I mean is that it's not like you stop earning your yearly salary while you're picking up a penny.
Picking up a penny takes way longer than one second! At least 5, if it includes stopping, and even longer if you check it out and put it in your wallet!
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I'd have to include another 30 seconds to unlock my phone and search something like "is 1956 penny worth anything", then another 20 seconds for disappointed reflecting.
You just need to remember the silver cutoff dates on silver coins. Pennies are only worthwhile if they aren't a Lincoln penny. Even the commemorative pennies with the centennial backs of Lincoln are like a dollar mint for the whole set. Wheat pennies and stuff like that should be obvious just looking at the penny.
Unless picking up the bill stops someone from earning for some reason, most people should earn their hourly wage plus $100
Is this part not showing for you or did you just miss it?
That’s what I meant as well - we are saying the same thing. I think I misread your comment as that being the threshold to make it worth it. Don’t mind me, my brain is mush after work lol
Although a dog may have peed on it, so wash your hands!
source: owner of a dog that proudly pees on any foreign item on the street.
If you're making less than $300k, can you really complain about your money covered in dog piss? /s hopefully obviously lol