Please note that the following post is for educational purposes only, as trading Moons for McNuggets is strictly against the terms and conditions of Reddit.

Data

At current market rates a box of 20 McNuggets costs 15.9 moons.

An average sized chicken yields approximately 80 McNuggets once fully processed.

This means 1 Chicken = 63.6 moons, once fully processed.

Using these three data points it is very easy to calculate the current value of your moons in units of 20 Mcnugget Boxes, Individual McNuggets, or Chickens.

Applied

Let's apply this to the current largest moonwhale, as an example.

Using the same data, the current largest moon whale u/NanooverBtc could afford:

48,243 x Box of 20 McNuggets

965,000 x Individual McNuggets

12,060 x chickens worth of McNuggets

Calories and Nutrition

The National Health Service recommend the average human consumes 2250 calories per day to sustain themselves. Let's round this down to 2000 to simplify the math, and account for the inflation of diets in developed countries. Whilst a diet consisting entirely of McNuggets would not be advisable or well balanced nutritionally, let's use it as a frame of reference here. A box of 20 McNuggets contains 920 calories. An average adult human would therefore need two boxes of 20 McNuggets (40 McNuggets, 1920 calories) per day to sustain themselves, discounting the 80 calorie deficit that the human would have to supplement themselves through their own personal means.

Therefore a user needs to make 31.8 moons per day in order to sustain themselves with a diet 95% composed of McNuggets. To generate 31.9 moons per day, a user would need to earn approximately 128 karma (or 64 comment karma), using the distribution ratio from August as a point of reference. This does not account for the governance polls bonus or the 20% HODL bonus, which could bring this down considerably.

Thank you for reading.

Sources (moar liek Sauces amirite?)

McDonalds US Menu prices via Burger Lad

McNuggets yield per chicken calculated by user Kerry Walacavage via Quora

Calorie recommendations using NHS as a starting point

McNugget Calories data provided by Google