There is a one-in-a-million longshot that he was not being completely, one hundred percent serious, did not in fact think that he should be paid 25 dollars for

There is a one-in-a-million longshot that he was not being completely, one hundred percent serious, did not in fact think that he should be paid 25 dollars for making himself a sandwich, and was using it as an illustration of his new-found feeling that time spent not working is time spent watching money slip through his fingers.