Sure, learning how to sharpen is non-negligible. Like most skills it takes time to gain proficiency at first and pays off later. I only have to sharpen my stra

Sure, learning how to sharpen is non-negligible. Like most skills it takes time to gain proficiency at first and pays off later. I only have to sharpen my straight razor maybe twice a year at most. Kitchen knives depends on use but a typical sharpening is 15 minutes maybe? I might do this 3 - 4 times a year. I do woodworking with hand tools which need to be sharpened far more often and that is fairly time consuming... but so is making wood projects from hand tools. I consider it part of the process. If we get to fully economic decision making the case can be made to prefer convenience over all else because of paperclip maximization. Instead of buying organic clothes made by hand and spending the time to maintain and repair them we prefer fast-fashion. It's cheaper in time and money to simply buy a brand new shirt. Along with the many other benefits it entails. But that has a cost too, doesn't it? Landfills chock full of disposed-of clothes, beaches covered in cables of clothes that have washed up on shore, and they're mostly made of oil-based products and will take centuries to degrade. People with families and children literally starving and wrecking their bodies in sweat shops to produce these throw-away, convenient, cheap clothes. Some times taking time to do things the slow, inconvenient way has a lot of benefits too that are not immediately obvious until we take a step back and stop trying to be in such a rush.