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We should pay people based on how hard the work is.
Minimum wage jobs are often strenuous. So we should set a
minimum payment based on the calories and energy required to
do the job.
This is to cover the wear and tear of human beings that do the
job. Knees, backs, joints are the first to
go for hard workers.
All jobs can be distilled to a number, which represents the
definite energy requirements to doing the job which is the
amount of calories.
This calorie usage is a proxy to how difficult the job is. Most
hard working jobs are not worth the money.
How many calories does the brain consume?
https://www.shareca...in-calories-at-rest
[Voice, Jun 29 2020]
How much difference does it make to think harder?
https://www.thesun....g-mcdonalds-burger/
the difference in calorie consumption between tasks is pretty minimal at around five per cent [Voice, Jun 29 2020]
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Brain is the main energy use of human body. How to quantify amount of calories used designing e.g. spreadsheet? Could be more than required to lift stacks of bricks if spreadsheet is complex enough. |
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pocmloc, i would say that the market for salaries for non-
physical labour, for office based work such as excel
spreadsheets and word documents is pretty effective at
calculating the correct salary. |
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It's just very poor at calculating the salaries for work that
is hard, such as shelf stackers, garden centre employees,
builders, general labourers. They have to do a lot to get
very little in return. |
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I used to be a waitress. I was one of those who prided myself
on how heavy I could make the tray that I would balance on
my shoulder and take to serve the table of 6 or 7. It was
something to do, and we kind of competed on who could
carry the most without stuff falling off. |
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Now my knees and back are easily made sore and I swear it's
all due to the stupidity of doing that for measly tips for
quite a few years. |
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So if you move from general laboring to skilled bricklaying
you get paid less? |
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Bummer, now I'll have to peel off the bumper sticker that says, "Work Smarter, not Harder"! |
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At least I can replace it with one that says "Why do it right the first time, when you can get paid twice as much to do it over". |
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Seriously though, there is something to be said against minimum paying - back-breaking work. |
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//peel off the bumper sticker that says, "Work Smarter, not
Harder"!// |
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Peel off the second half and re-apply it in front of the first. |
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Personally, I'm getting ankle weights and moving between
labs using a corridor 2 floors down. |
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Your brain uses 300-500 calories per day, and about 5% more if you're thinking hard. Linky, linky. |
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//about 5% more if you're thinking hard.// |
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Now I was going to make a cocky comment, but then I got
interested. I dispute a lot of that junky article. Watching
football can burn a lot of calories, emotional investment,
general anger, modelling the physical movements in your
head etc. |
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But, I wonder how it scales? Does a low IQ person idle at
lower fuel burn Vs a high IQ person? Do high IQ people
burn less fuel per equivalent task? Nature selects against
big brains when food is short - why have a full PC when
you can do what you need with a microcontroller? etc. |
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I feel each job title should have a minimum pay. |
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It's different between jobs. |
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I'd love to see an MRI of when people considered themselves
'thinking hard' and compare it to when they're not. |
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Now if we could only find a way to linearize the calorie to
food cost tangle, this would start to make sense. |
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Ought there to be an upper arm patch that turns color when
sufficient calories are burning? An observer can then see if
the employee is working as hard as their pay standard
indicates. |
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