Most people don't take home that amount ($250k/year). Would hope most people could do the math in under 15 seconds as well, doubling that rate. A far more reasonable "value" would be 10 cents.
Why? Calculating a tip isn't something that has a failure state because even if you give the wrong amount it won't matter. On top of that the exercise of calculating the tip is beneficial for your long term mental acuity.
I'm not sure why doing a simple calculation that doesn't benefit me and has no failure state is a benefit. It's a benefit for the tippee maybe, but not the tipper.
It's not a lot of effort, but $1 also isn't a lot of money.
>On top of that the exercise of calculating the tip is beneficial for your long term mental acuity.
If you can honestly say that you think most people enjoy doing math, I don't know what to tell you.
It's primary value is to the person being rolled because they aren't paying for anything.
Automating something people weren't getting laid to do provides value to someone else not the person paying.
Maybe it's not controversial so much as misguided and looking at the picture from the wrong perspective. Who is it providing value to? What did that person save through the automation and how much is that worth if you actually parse out how many such "value periods" they experience in a day.
The idea that a very simple division question is worth $1 when everyone has a cell phone they already paid for in their pocket to do division for them is ludicrous when you realize there are tens of thousands of such time periods in a day but very few people are making tens of thousands of dollars a day.
Let's say you took 10 seconds to calculate it which is generous and also time to lunch it into a phone. There would be more than 36 thousand of such time/labour units in a given twenty four hour period. Unless you hang around with CEO's you aren't making 36 thousand a day to hand it out so easily.
$1 for nothing or value is a lot ofoney.