Originally Posted by Reality Bytes
I was quoting from the other article . . .

I had to scratch my head over those numbers a bit. First of all, I wondered, $100 per what? Well, I guess it must be per week, eh? Sure ain't a day! Nor a month, one must hope.

So an extra penny a pound equals an extra franklin a week. That means to earn an extra c-note, they must pick ten thousand pounds of tomatoes each week.

Ten thousand pounds. That works out to, hmm. A six day week, 1,667 pounds day. 180 pounds per hour, 9 hours a day. 3 pounds per minute. Every minute.

Wow.

Now, the second thing that caught my eye. If a one cent per pound increase yields a $100 a week raise in income, then how much are they getting per week at 1.5 cents per pound?

Now recall the comment of the Burger King executive, who probably makes $100 an hour. Or more.

Originally Posted by Burger King Executive
that won't help them out of poverty

Them.

Steve
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