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Originally Posted by KrisKross
Say it takes you 5 seconds to pick up a dime. That's $1.20 a minute and $72 an hour. I'd say that's worth it.
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This reminds me of that phrase that went around; how it wasn't worth Bill Gate's time to spend the seconds to pick up a dollar he saw while walking down the street, or something...
Also reminds me of my last road trip with the wife... We stopped at a gas station and she spied a toy car. Picked it up and said "Look what I found!". She showed it to me then threw it back on the pavement.
I think it was the moment of finding "something" that made her pick it up, all happy she was, in the middle of bumb-fuck-Egypt, that made the moment special. The realization of it being just a toy car and adding unnecessary clutter to life, I think, made her throw it back.
A dime, on the other hand, can be thrown in a coin jar and eventually cashed in.... So yea, I'd pick up the dime.