With a 1% machine, you can pull the lever for a few months then use the earnings to go recuperate and start something wonderful. The longer you pull the lever

With a 1% machine, you can pull the lever for a few months then use the earnings to go recuperate and start something wonderful. The longer you pull the lever on the minimum wage machine, the more you have to rely on it since you'll never have a buffer large enough to go do something else and improve your situation. The common pattern is you'll work overtime then end up wasting the money on conveniences make up for lost time sleeping/eating. The only escape is to work at a grueling pace and starve until you have a large enough buffer that you can look for other opportunities, but this is destroyed the moment anything unexpected happens or the energy spent looking is not fruitful. If the 1% machine monkey is not fruitful in his attempt to escape the crank, he's still going back to that 7 cents a second. (or maybe 4 cents if his name was in the news)