Sunday, November 20, 2022

How to get paid less than minimum wage

Netflix has an ad-supported Basic tier for $6.99/mo. The version without ads costs $9.99/mo. The average US adult subscriber spends 30 minutes a day watching Netflix. That's about 15 hours. Netflix claims to show about 4 minutes of ads per hour of viewing. That's 4 * 15 = 60 minutes or 1 hour a month. So you can pay an average US adult $3.00/hr to watch ads for about an hour a month. 

The ad-supported version is a good deal only if you spend very little time on Netflix. In fact, if you value your ad-view time at:

  • the federal minimum wage ($7.25), you should watch fewer than 6.2 hours a month on Netflix Basic with Ads.
  • the California minimum wage ($15.00), you should watch fewer than 3 hours a month (6 minutes per day) on Netflix Basic with Ads.
OK, I'm now going back to watching TikTok videos for $0.00/hr.

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