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The impetus for my comment was that her first instinct was to bring the iPad to the Apple store to get an estimate. After finding out that it would cost $200,
by downandout 13y ago
The impetus for my comment was that her first instinct was to bring the iPad to the Apple store to get an estimate. After finding out that it would cost $200, she embarked on fixing it herself. This implies that her motivation for doing it herself was at least in part financial. Given the effort it took, that seems to have been a fool's errand.
I didn't mean to imply that recreation or personal fulfillment should be viewed as a cost center. If that were the case, I would owe myself millions of dollars :).
- maxerickson 13y agoThere are lots of people who don't really have the ability to arbitrarily sell their time at whatever value they assign to it. (I guess this is something like the marginal value of the DIY repair could easily be higher than the marginal value of learning something else or seeking and doing work)
- bronson 13y agoExcept she sounds stoked even though it took 7+ hours. How do you explain that? Also, it was 200 pounds, $330 USD.
- collyw 13y agoIts a well known psychological phenomena (I can't remember the name of it), that something you have worked hard for has more value than if you acquired the same thing say by winning it in a competition. I assume in this case she also learned a lot from the process, which she will value also.