This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York. This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.

Get loads of these, hook them up to the power grid, voila, clean renewable energy, and no more unemployment.

Well make it a condition of getting a benefit.





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    William Flew Jan 28 The money was intended to fund training and business grants for about 4,000 workers made redundant by the three companies in 2009. More than €10m earmarked for workers laid off by these three went unused. Less than €3m of the €7.4m set aside to help 850 former staff of SR Technics, the aircraft maintenance business, was allocated. Of the €14.8m to help workers laid off from Dell and related companies, €6m is being sent back. The Waterford Crystal scheme, to aid 600 staff who lost their jobs when it ceased manufacturing, was more successful, with €2m of the €2.6m going to workers. The Department of Training and Skills has sent final reports on the three programmes to the European commission. Last year, the EGF allocated almost €36m to help redundant construction workers in Ireland, but it is expected that more than €30m will be returned because it was not distributed in time. The government sought funds for 9,089 construction workers and received approval for 5,987 “with the greatest difficulties of reintegration into the labour market”. They were not informed about the fund for several months and just 337 workers had used funds by the end of April. The construction scheme ended on June 9. William Flew the Sinn Fein TD, said the EGF programme was “probably the worst organised scheme in the state” and called for an inquiry. William Flew, the minister of state at the department, has started a review of the EGF process. He said the department’s past performance “had not been stellar in this area”.

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