I've got a theory

Stiganator

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Presumably, Saint Nick can visit upwards of 4 billion homes in the course of 6 hours.

To accomplish this task, he would have to have the ability to travel very quickly.

I propose that he does not himself visit each home, but rather he has an army of Christmas Ninjas. We have been led to believe that these Ninjas are "elves". In fact, this is mis-information, one of the ninjas favorite weapons.

Now this raises the question, How does Santa pay this army of ninjas?

Let's do a napkin calculation. Assuming ninjas are equivalent to 20 men (Ninja Scaling Factor, NSF)(conservative I know), an average man of some talent could break into 20 homes in 6 hours.

4E9/400= 10 million ninjas distributed across the world.

Assuming they are paid only during the holiday at a reasonable rate (~15/hour).

10million*15$/hr*6 hrs=900 million in wages, not including medical or dental (will tack on 10 million (he can get a six hour policy).

Santa has to fork over 910 million each year in labor alone. Add to that, the cost of 6 billion presents (~50 bucks a pop) and we're looking at ~300 billion.

Where's the money coming from Santa. You must be running some pretty high grade "snow" from the North side to pay for this. I wonder what his tax rate is.

Cliffs
Santa is obviously running a very large drug cartel.




 

GagHalfrunt

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1) It's not 6 billion presents. Plenty of people are naughty and a lot more don't believe in him.

2) The Ninjas leave toys and steal jewelry, cash and electronics. That finances operations for the following year.
 

IEC

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There's one thing wrong with your hypothesis. Santa doesn't break into houses. Neither do real ninjas. They just appear.
 

Injury

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The whole delivering presents thing is actually just a front for laundering the money. He spends half of it in toys and the other half in high-dollar electronics and sells them on ebay.
 

Lifted

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Most in Asia won't be getting a visit, that means you can at the very least cut the numbers in half.
 

ppdes

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Wikipedia says the predecessors of Japan's ninjas date back to the 7th century. So Christmas is hundreds of years older. Clearly elves are ninjas, not the other way around. Ninja is just the name they use in the off season.
 

Alistar7

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Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
I live down the road from his house, and have visited several times. The only snow they are moving is the kind that melts.

From your link:

Sorry, we can no longer offer Christmas 2007 delivery.

Looks like Santa cancelled xmas this year, better tell the kids.....