Free Rice
There's a national crisis nobody is addressing: freerice.com. I ran the numbers. At roughly 24 cents of donated rice per hour against minimum wage, you'd do more good shoveling your neighbor's driveway.
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.
