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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 10:54:27 JST Evan Prodromou

   Interesting results! I was mostly thinking about the value of this time to the watcher. I think it might be interesting to compare what advertisers pay and what content creators spend to make ad-supported content. I also think about what I pay, or not, for ad blockers and ad-free content.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 10:56:39 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I realize that $5/minute nets out to $300/hour, a pretty great billing rate for anyone who's not an entertainment lawyer, but for a single minute I don't think I'd do the deal for less than $10. Illogical but such is the human mind. Thanks all!

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     Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 11:00:07 JST Infoseepage

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     @evan There's a great version of this in the mini-series The Lost Room, where there are a series of "Objects" with odd powers. One of them is a pencil which if you tap the eraser against a hard surface, a penny appears. I did a calculation based on how fast I could tape a pencil at a rate I could reasonably sustain and then checked the weight and metal composition for that year's penny's (it always produces an identical penny). The I checked the melt value.

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     Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 11:02:17 JST Infoseepage

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     @evan If you did it as a full time job, 8 hours a day every day for a year, you could make a few million bucks, but you'd probably go insane from tapping the pencil over and over again endlessly. The pencil is essentially a cursed object that gives the user modest wealth, but would drive you nuts trying to use it.

     https://lostroom.fandom.com/wiki/Objects