>time is the thing I don't have enough of, else I would figure out most things. Sure, if your time has no value, then you can learn to be professional at every

>time is the thing I don't have enough of, else I would figure out most things. Sure, if your time has no value, then you can learn to be professional at everything. And for many tasks the amount you'd have to pay to learn to do it far exceeds the cost of hiring someone, since they amortize their training time and tool cost over multiple clients. Since time is finite, that's why it often pays in both time and money to hire someone. > With youtube, you can... Youtube and the like have led a significant number of people to assume they have skills they don't, and the effect is large enough there's subfields in econ and psych that study this effect. For example [1] [1] https://review.chicagobooth.edu/behavioral-science/2018/article/watching-youtube-can-make-you-overly-confident https://review.chicagobooth.edu/behavioral-science/2018/arti...