• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 hours ago

    Time to calculate how much 1 marshmallow is worth in time considering minimum wage in my country.

    Let’s begin.
    Minimum wage in Slovakia is €4.69/h.
    An 80g bag of Jojo marshmallows is €1.19 at Tesco.
    It claims one portion is 3 marshmallows which is 11.7g.
    Therefore 1 marshmallow is 3.9g.
    Therefore there are 20 - 21 marshmallows in the bag.
    Therefore 1 marshmallow costs roughly €0.058.
    €4.69/h is €0.078/m or €0.0013/s.
    Therefore, 1 marshmallow costs roughly 44.62 seconds of work time.

    Well, assuming there are no taxes. So maybe something close to 1 minute per marshmallow. Although… maybe if we add total time, including time you’re not working… 12 marshmallows an hour, 288 a day, 2016 a week, 8640 a month. That’s €501.12/month.

    Based on this the minimum monthly wage after taxes and all is €661.80/month.

    Conclusion: It is worth the 5 minutes.