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The Minimum Wage Crank
By nikkita | December 1, 2009
Need a little perspective about the money you’re working for? Then give Blake Fall-Conroy’s Minimum Wage Machine, a contraption that allows you to physically crank out an hour’s pay, per hour, a spin.
Custom electronics, change sorter, wood, plexiglas, motor, misc. hardware, pennies (approx. 15 x 19 x 72 inches)
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. The machine’s mechanism and electronics are powered by the hand crank, and pennies are stored in a plexiglas box.
Wow. That must feel exactly like way too many jobs I’ve held, including that one bartending gig for some woman’s birthday. I don’t know what was worse. Her drunk and demanding friends, the fucking blizzard outside or that when we ran out of mixers, her mom requested her vodka be mixed with water.
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