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Using money as a way to evaluate the worth of how you spend your time carries a huge set of biases with it. Should I put a monetary value on playing with my kid
by benjaminjosephw 5y ago
Using money as a way to evaluate the worth of how you spend your time carries a huge set of biases with it. Should I put a monetary value on playing with my kids so I can justify it against making an extra sales call?
As a metaphor an "opportunity costs" is helpful for thinking about the value of time but it becomes an ideology in itself if you take it literally.
- xyzelement 5y ago> Should I put a monetary value on playing with my kids so I can justify it against making an extra sales call? I think we do that implicitly. You would probably love to play with your kid all day but you chose to make some sales calls so you have money to support the family. But you don't make all the sales calls you could make so that you have family time. So while sure we don't put a monetary number on our hours explicitly, we do have points at which selling our time is and isn't worth it.