[Brandon Holley]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

It's like those schemes where someone collects two million pop tabs, and then tries to exchange them for a wheelchair. Even if they do get a wheelchair out of it (and usually they don't), they've wasted so much effort that could have been better applied to something else.

This is just another version of the same sort of problem, except that we're talking labour instead of scrap metal (and in this case, the payout is certain, but in all likelihood smaller than the expenditure)

This is where I cannot follow your argument.

Sure, maybe if only a few people had spent all that time depositing coins in the piggy bank you can say that those persons couldve been more productive with their time. However, the beauty of the process was that it only required a few minutes from each person in a large group of people to accomplish the same task. Trying to roll all of that time up into collective man hours is in my eyes, apples and oranges.

Many people are more than willing to spend 10 minutes or so doing a task like that to help someone out. That doesn't mean you can take 48 people's collective 10 minutes each, add them together and get an 8 hour day of coin dropping. 1 person simply would not do that for an 8 hour day, which is why I cannot follow your argument.

-Brando