#parableofthetalents

$7.25/hr * 8hrs = $58 - fica: ($58 * 7.62%) =$4.4196 (fica)

$58 - $4.42 (fica) = $53

1 talent = 6000 days ( ~20 years ) of day labor * $53/ day = $318,000 in a financial sense

or since the price of silver on march 21, 2018 at 8:50 am est was $16.29/ ounce and 16 ounces in a pound times 80 pounds = $20,851 per talent of silver

bit of a change in value of labor and silver since biblical days

80 pounds * 16 = 1,280 ounces of silver in a talent ÷ 6000 days work = 0.21333 ounces of silver / day

$16.29 / ounce of silver times 0.21333 ounces = $3.4751457

the average worker in biblical times at today's silver price made $3.47 worth of silver / day ?

thank god for unions

a dime weighs 0.080 ounces

before 1965 dimes were 90% silver

a day's wages in biblical times ( at today's silver price ) were about 3 silver dimes

a collectible roosevelt silver dime is worth about $1.18 today

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talent

" A talent (Ancient Greek τάλαντον, talanton ‘scale’ and ‘balance’) was a unit of weight of approximately 80 pounds (36 kg), and when used as a unit of money, was valued for that weight of silver.[13] As a unit of currency, a talent was worth about 6,000 denarii.[1] Since a denarius was the usual payment for a day's labour,[1] the value of a talent was about twenty years of labour, by an ordinary person.[14]  "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_talents_or_minas