Free Rice

This issue needs to be addressed. Presidential candidates should be taking a stance on this. Concerned citizens should be decrying it. The problem is freerice.com. By testing your vocabulary prowess, you can donate rice to feed the often-mentioned hungry people. It's an interesting idea. And if you're an idiot, you might also think that it's a productive way to spend your time.

Check this out:

1 grain of rice weighs 28 milligrams
1 pound of rice equals 453,592 milligrams
1 pound of rice equals 16,200 grains of rice
1 pound of rice costs $0.55 (FreshDirect)
1 grain of rice costs $0.0000339506173
20 grains of rice cost $0.000679012346

10 seconds per question (estimate)
10 seconds per 20 grains of rice
6 questions in a minute (perfect and infinite vocabulary)
360 questions in an hour

360 questions * 20 grains of rice = 7,200 grains of rice
7,200 grains of rice costs $0.244
$0.244 of rice donated per hour

New York State minimum wage is $7.15 / hour

It is likely that you make more than $7.15 / hour presently, so unless you are the only individual in this world who can access the internet and read English whose time is not worth at least $0.25 an hour, then in using freerice.com you are wasting your time, reducing the productivity of your country (go earn a dollar shoveling your neighbor's driveway!), and making yourself feel better when you shouldn't be.