Java 438
on March 12, 2026
at 5:00 am
Yes, that is below minimum wage but I don’t think a sphinx can be a citizen, so it’s cool to pay them pennies. Not actual pennies, because a copper penny is worth like 3 cents, which would make his daily pay almost a dollar! And that would be about the average daily wage of a quarter of the world’s population.
And we can’t pay the sphinx more than a human gets!
Somebody may need to explain real estate to him. Assuming he works every day like Matt apparently does: .30*365.25*100=10,957.50. Before taxes.
Add in compound interest at 4.5%!
I suppose he might get some fringe benefits, like devouring customers.
Maybe he can have side-hustle doing cameos, dispensing sphinx-wisdom.
Or writing fortune cookies