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In Matthew 20:1-16 Jesus tells a parable and uses the labor market of His day as an example of the Kingdom of God. In 150+ words, explain what lessons the parable has in how we should think about wages and the labor market today.

Matthew 20:1-16

“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend.Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

My coach says that I need to eat 1.2 - 1.5 grams of proteins perkilogram when I have a common cold and flu. I normally eat one gramof proteins per kilogram, while double it when doing my exercisetraining.

He explained that the reason why you need to get more goodproteins when you are sick is that the body is building antibodiesby the adaptive immune system and later for innate immunity.

I think he can be right based only on my own experiences gettingbetter from common cold with low protein diet - it just takes a lotof time, while under high protein diet, you get better faster. Ialso think his explanation makes complete sense to me, sinceantibodies and antigens are proteins.

Why do you need more proteins when you aresick?

A question about utility maximization.

Nancy Lerner is trying to decide how to allocate her time instudying for her Economics course.There are two examinationsin this course. Her overall score for the course will be theminimum of her scores on the two examinations.She has decided todevote a total of 1,200 minutes to studying for these twoexams, and she wants to get as high an overall score aspossible. She knows that on the first examination if she doesn’tstudy at all, she will get a score of zero on it. For every 10minutes that she spends studying for the first examination,she will increase her score by one point.If she doesn’tstudy at all for the second examination she will get a zero onit. For every 20 minutes she spends studying for the secondexamination, she will increase her score by one point.

What is Nancy's utility maximizing scores for exam 1 and exam 2?What is her maximum utility? Find how much time she must spend oneach exam to maximize her overal score?

I am able to determine that Nancy's budget line here would be 10X +20Y = 1200, where X = exam 1 score, Y = exam 2 score, however, I amhaving trouble determining the utility maximization since I can'tfigure out how to determine her utility function, U(X, Y), fromthere I can use the Lagrangian method to determine how to maximizeher utility. It could be that I am going about this the wrong waythough. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.