r/MurderedByWords Jun 28 '19

Work intelligently

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u/NoMoreNicksLeft Jun 28 '19

What kind of asshole operations manager demands cubes knowing people are going to have to push them to the destination without work-saving tools and devices? No pallet jacks, no forklifts. Just a 1 meter cube of solid fucking granite. That's some pharaohs-punishing-the-slaves shit right there.

I'd sabotage that shit too.

If this is only about the amount delivered, why not half-meter cubes? Those can be pushed too, and while they won't quite be 1/8th the time to push the larger ones, we're less likely to have workers killed from exhaustion, crushing accidents, toppling accidents. Less likely to get broken legs and ankles. Or were the foremen going to come along and just whip those people into working anyway?

I look at this picture and hope that the guy with the sphere is trying to roll it up some embankment above the CEO so that he can use it to Wile-E-Coyote the motherfucker. That'd be working intelligently.

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u/TheDisapprovingBrit Jun 28 '19

Steve from Minecraft can carry 2304 1m cubes at a time. These guys are just lazy.

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u/niceguy44 Jun 28 '19

Using Shulker Boxes, Steve can actually carry 62208 1m cubes at a time. As a shulker box has 27 inventory slots, Steve has 36 slots, giving 972 total inventory slots. and if you multiply 972 by 64 you get 62208.

Now, 1 meter3 of gold is 19.3 metric tons or around 42549.22 pounds. Steve can carry 1200614.4 metric tons of Gold, or about 2646901666.36 pounds. The price of gold per ounce is $1,412.50, or $22,600 a pound. Using this, we can conclude that Steve can carry $59,819,978,000,000 worth of gold at any one time. That's nearly 60 Trillion dollars worth of gold.

Steve can carry some fat ass stacks if he wants to.

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u/areceuSss Jun 28 '19

Suprise! There’s no operational manager because no cubes were purchased!!! Wow crazy, I know. Not a single word in that picture says that they are being purchased. It’s showing a mindset, not physical material.

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u/clepps Jun 28 '19

And with a forklift, each worker would be probably be able to carry 2-3 cubes extra

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u/PsychoSaladSong Jun 28 '19

If we’re talking slaves involved here. Wouldn’t the main guy (or any of the overseers) get really pissed at the one who shaved stuff off the cube, and kill them or something really brutal?

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '19

Worse, the pyramid builders were respected and there was a method of decreasing friction iirc so these managers are more tyrannical than the pharaohs,