Penny Pick-Up
Minimum wage in Oregon, at the time that this is written, is $8.50. Assuming that $8.50 is the lowest amount of money that a person is willing to work for, should that person bend over and pick up a penny laying on the ground, further assuming that it takes 5 seconds to do so?

Answer: No, although just a little bit quicker would do it.

Calculation: $8.50 per hour = 850/60 = 14.7 cents per minute. Dividing 14.7 into 60 seconds, yields 4.24 seconds to earn one cent.