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Why? I’m not saying you’re wrong per se but you offer a stern dismissal without any reason nor alternative. For what it’s worth, I think the GP makes a pretty
by laumars 5y ago
Why? I’m not saying you’re wrong per se but you offer a stern dismissal without any reason nor alternative.
For what it’s worth, I think the GP makes a pretty common opinion. For example people on lower incomes will do more household jobs themselves because it saves them money, whereas people on higher incomes will pay people to do things because it saves them time. The opinion might be dressed up differently when I state that but it’s still the simple act of a person putting a value on their free time. It’s why we have house cleaners, windows cleaners, gardeners, car washers, and so on and so forth. The only different is people don’t usually casually post precise numeric values against their time. But it’s still a sentiment shared by many.
- ubercow13 5y agoPutting a valuation on one’s time is not unreasonable but assuming every hour of your life is worth the same as the equivalent hourly rate of your salaried job kind of is? Or at least it’s overly simplistic. Not every hour of your life is fungible like that.
- laumars 5y agoIt is overly simplistic. But equally if you’re paid less then a car wash you’d probably want to wash the car yourself. There is going to be a line drawn somewhere that equates to “yes this is worthwhile expense” and “no, I’m better off doing that myself”. While I acknowledge that line is going to be variable depending on how much one likes or loaves a particular activity, equating the cost of outsourcing to your own rate of pay isn’t an unreasonable approximation for where that line should reside.