*very white* oh shizzle my nizzle I'm here to shed some more light on our
favorite overall the Italian hero you see throughout the ages there have been
many Mario games and throughout those games there have been many gold coins
but I don't really care about that part what I do care about is there is a part
of Mario's life that everyone is willingly choosing to neglect it's the
time when he is at rescuing damsels in distress or ingesting mind-altering
fungi you see Mario does have a day job plumbing when he's not rescuing pretty
ladies and cooky dresses he's on his hands and knees or back working with
pipes wow that sounded really wrong but you get the idea
in fact the Mario Brothers own their own plumbing company where they regularly
work so my question is how much does Mario actually make I know he collects
thousands of gold coins over the course of all the Mario games but depending on
who you ask those coins value can range anywhere
from millions of dollars to absolutely nothing another thing we know is that
Princess Peach is a schemer who puts Mario in these positions to collect all
these gold coins so that she can benefit for her own selfish game we went over
that in this video right here but now begs a different question if peach stops
being this conniving asshat that she is and pretending to be captured and
forcing Mario to go on all these life-threatening adventures and then
stealing the gold coins that he collects for herself
what would smari o be worth well getting the answer in dollars is actually
relatively easy according to a time article in average plumber makes about
forty six thousand dollars per year based on a 40-hour work week with some
master plumbers with five to seven years of experience netting around a hundred
thousand dollars per year that's pretty reasonable but we all know this is fake
news stop rolling around so let's bring in a second opinion according to a US
news article the median salary for a plumber is approximately $50,000 per
year with the top 10% netting around $90,000 per year in the bottom 10%
earning about $30,000 per you all right two articles coming to basically the
same conclusion then those line up with everything else I print so sounds like
we can move on huh so the next question would be where does mario fall into
space Cael well the lower end of it is around 30 grand and the higher-end is
ninety to a hundred grand for those master plumbers and as for
Mario well let's just say he's a seasoned vet of the plumbing game he's
been around since the 80s so that's over 30 years of plumbing experience I'd say
that just about covers the five to seven year approximation for a master plumber
wouldn't you and also couple all that with the fact that Mario is a plumber
for a freakin castle pit so yet it's safe to say he's in the top percent of
plumbing earners so let's just go ahead and guesstimate that Mario's yearly
salary is around a hundred thousand dollars you know without the mushroom
kingdoms bureaucratic bullshit that is income tax but why God take my money
government why why mine did schools a good roads I just marvel while the buddy
fuckin system fuck himself it yeah Mario makes about a hundred thousand dollars
but how much does that translate into gold coin well the next step is figuring
out how much gold coins are worth in US money people have labeled these coins as
having no value to having millions of dollars of values depending on who's
analyzing it and how they choose to look at things on the one hand if these coins
are solid gold and work under the assumption that these coins are worth as
much in mario land as they are in the real world then these coins can be
valued for up to a quarter of a billion dollars according to this vsauce3 video
from a while back but that raises more questions is gold worth as much in the
mario world as it is IRL and why is gold worth so much in the
real world let's dive into the second question first gold is pretty scarce
it's malleable and it's incredibly corrosion resistant you are able to turn
it into sand wires or pound it out into gold sheets or make jewelry or statues
out of it and the fact that it isn't a very reactive metal makes it very good
for standing the test of time in whatever shape you happen to bolt it
into that combined with the fact that it's scarce enough to be well rare and
the fact that it's very useful for many different things in society makes it
wealth it's very valuable oh and the fact that it looks pretty it definitely
helps too but then on the flip side we have to translate this into Mushroom
Kingdom currency in Mario's world these coins are all over the place they just
regenerate when you go back and play the same world and if these coins were solid
gold each one would weigh about four point
five tonnes considering there are only 168,000 180 tonnes of gold on the whole
planet Earth that means we would only need them doing madam all right and one
hundred sixty-eight thousand divided by 4.5 carry the one and grew long debating
who will tell me the answer we would only need about thirty seven and a half
thousand solid gold mario coins to have more gold than the entire planet Earth
now I know you might think that this is a lot but think about all the Mario game
and how many levels there are in each game just defeated once and how many
times you've replayed level yeah I think it's safe to say that I collected more
than 37 thousand coins in my gun ah nah man this um this girl's a wrench into
things we have so much gold like so much gold the value is going to go down
because there is such a ridiculous supply of gold without much demand we
have to worry about inflation inflation in this case isn't referring to two
balloons we're talking about currency inflation is the idea that as you
increase the availability of the currency the supply the value of that
currency decreases if you have 100 people selling chocolate chip cookies
but only two people want to buy that means that with all the people selling
those cookies and with only two people wanting to buy them the value of the
cookie drops significantly but what's not around let's say you have two people
trying to sell cookies and 100 people want to buy them that means the value of
the cookie goes way up got it good just based off this idea the value of each
gold coin would plummet but I'm going to throw something else into the mix also
if each coin really is 4.5 tons or 9,000 pounds that means it is unreasonable to
think that Mario can carry one gold coin let alone that wasn't sup them all the
way across all the levels so I'm just going to go out on a limb here and
assume that each coin is gold-plated and hollow and well if you don't like it you
can go duck yourself with the duck and their corkscrew PD
and I think we get the picture so let's figure out the price of a hollow coin to
do this we need to start by calculating the surface area of our new coin a coin
is a cylinder with an incredibly small height so we need to use the formula
surface area equals 2 PI R squared plus 2 pi RH I'll save you all the messy
calculations but the approximate surface area of a Mario coin is 3061 square
inches and I figure we want this going to be one hundredth of an inch thin so
the gold is as thin as possible this gives us a coin volume of thirty
point six inches cubed doing some other magic math stuffs which I could go into
but I really don't want to bore you we figure out that this hollow coin is
worth approximately three hundred eighty six thousand dollars and on top of this
hollow coin would only weigh 0.01 tons to twenty pounds much more reasonable
and from earlier we know that there are 168 thousand one hundred eighty tons of
gold in the whole planet earth I divide that by point zero one tonnes for each
coin and we have to collect sixteen point eight million coins to have more
gold than the entire planet Earth now that seems a bit harder to do so yeah
while inflation is definitely going to be an issue in the long term for the
Mushroom Kingdom it's definitely not something we have to worry about now and
if there's anything I've learned from American politics there's no logical
reason to plan for the future just wait for all these issues to screw us over
later and then we can deal with it it's how we're dealing with global warming
and it's how we're going to deal with the mushroom kingdoms economy crash so
now we're going to round up and say that each gold coin is worth 400 grand first
and felicity city week estimated Mario's salary is about a hundred G's a year so
that means his salary is only about 1/4 of a gold coin that that sucks
but given peaches conniving action done I'm not surprised
Mario is on peaches payroll he is her employee his salary comes directly from
the Mushroom Kingdom that means that when peach goes out and
gets captured Mario when he goes out to safer is on the clock which means all
the money he finds during his escapades at the very least is considered taxable
income and at the very worst none of that lands in his pocket at all
all of it goes to the Mushroom Kingdom when you begin a Big Boi job in the real
world companies will have you sign a contract
and in that contract is a provision I'm not going to get into the legal jargon
bobby-boo bebop but basically just know that in that provision it says that any
intellectual property you create well on the clock belongs directly to your
employer and you can be sure as hell that any coins earned will fall under
that to the Mushroom Kingdom meaning that Mario probably isn't even
getting a cut of any of the moolah he earns him Mario that that blows them I'm
sorry I mean maybe if peach is generous she'll give you and your brother a
little housing stipend for your little place I mean there's no evidence for
that but peach peach peach taking the bandage of Mario in any way you can huh
I mean he still makes like a hundred grand a year but I mean what do you guys
think you think peach is just a smart businesswoman or is she totally screwing
over Mario doesn't feel feel free to start an argument with me in the
comments I mean I won't actually argue with you but you can try to start one oh
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