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You can't fit in an hour every weekend to go get food, that's cheaper and better quality than a grocery store to feed you and your family?

vkou 9y ago
An hour of a software engineer's time is worth ~$30-50. At least, many of them happily pay that much for someone to do an hour's worth of chores for them. Unless you're buying industrial quantities of food, I doubt a trip to the farmer's market will save you $40. The quality difference is also difficult to quantify. Onions and potatoes from the farmer's market aren't any healthier then onions from the supermarket. And here's the elephant in the room - at any particular time of year, most of the food that you eat is not in season where you live. If it's not in season, you're not going to get it from your farmer's market (Unless said farmer is reselling it from a wholesaler - which a lot of stalls do.) Do you spend an hour a week churning butter by hand, or do you pay someone else to do it for you?
- iamleppert 9y ago
  Oh there we go with the "my time is worth $50/hr" thing. By that kind of reasoning, how much money can you save by reducing how much time you sleep by an hour each night? Or maybe if I add 10 people to your project you'll get it done 10x faster?
  - vkou 9y ago
    I get paid a lot more then $30-50/hr. I discounted my rate for time I'm not at work. After a point, I will absolutely pay $30 to not lose another hour of sleep. Either way, you're missing the point. Time is money. People spend money to save time, and people spend time to save money. Different people have a different rate at which they'll strongly consider doing one over the other. For most of us, the amount of money we have is very limited. For all of us, the amount of time we have is very limited. Eventually, we'll all be dead.
  - webnrrd2k 9y ago
    Additionally, just think how much money software developers could save if they paid $25 an hour for someone to sleep with their wife! Esitmating 1 hour a week, and an average salary of $50, that's an extra $25 per week, or $1300 a year!
    - jaclaz 9y ago
      ... and if you pay via Credit Card, you can probably have a 2% cashback, too.
cortesoft 9y ago
I think you are missing my point - if everyone switched to Farmer's markets only, it would overwhelm the system. Farmer's markets are simply not effecient enough to serve the millions of people who live in our large cities.

vkou 9y ago

An hour of a software engineer's time is worth ~$30-50. At least, many of them happily pay that much for someone to do an hour's worth of chores for them. Unless you're buying industrial quantities of food, I doubt a trip to the farmer's market will save you $40. The quality difference is also difficult to quantify. Onions and potatoes from the farmer's market aren't any healthier then onions from the supermarket. And here's the elephant in the room - at any particular time of year, most of the food that you eat is not in season where you live. If it's not in season, you're not going to get it from your farmer's market (Unless said farmer is reselling it from a wholesaler - which a lot of stalls do.) Do you spend an hour a week churning butter by hand, or do you pay someone else to do it for you?

iamleppert 9y ago
Oh there we go with the "my time is worth $50/hr" thing. By that kind of reasoning, how much money can you save by reducing how much time you sleep by an hour each night? Or maybe if I add 10 people to your project you'll get it done 10x faster?
- vkou 9y ago
  I get paid a lot more then $30-50/hr. I discounted my rate for time I'm not at work. After a point, I will absolutely pay $30 to not lose another hour of sleep. Either way, you're missing the point. Time is money. People spend money to save time, and people spend time to save money. Different people have a different rate at which they'll strongly consider doing one over the other. For most of us, the amount of money we have is very limited. For all of us, the amount of time we have is very limited. Eventually, we'll all be dead.
- webnrrd2k 9y ago
  Additionally, just think how much money software developers could save if they paid $25 an hour for someone to sleep with their wife! Esitmating 1 hour a week, and an average salary of $50, that's an extra $25 per week, or $1300 a year!
  - jaclaz 9y ago
    ... and if you pay via Credit Card, you can probably have a 2% cashback, too.

cortesoft 9y ago

I think you are missing my point - if everyone switched to Farmer's markets only, it would overwhelm the system. Farmer's markets are simply not effecient enough to serve the millions of people who live in our large cities.