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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
Pretend you're a worker in Wisconsin, making the minimum wage of $7.25/h. You're employed for 40 h/wk, and have the option of working up to 5 h/wk overtime at your normal wage.
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If most of the people involved in this pig-feeding game were hourly employees with the option of donating an extra hour's worth of pay, I'd be inclined to take your very detailed and very clear analysis at face value. However, I suspect that the vast majority of coinpiggage was done either by students who don't fit that category at all, or by salaried folk who don't make any more if they work more. Your argument seems to hinge on the opportunity cost of spending a few minutes of time playing the game, and I don't think you're considering that the "cost" for most of the players is vanishingly small.