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The way things are, it's worth the time if your time is worthless. I find it hard to get out of that rabbit hole while my weekly budget could feed a family for
by dognotdog 12y ago
The way things are, it's worth the time if your time is worthless. I find it hard to get out of that rabbit hole while my weekly budget could feed a family for a year on the other side of the globe. So all the DIY projects I undertake, I cannot justify them with economic efficiency.
- teddyh 12y agoSince you can’t get that family on the other side of the globe to do your repairs for you, it doesn’t compare. Even if I have a well-paid job, I don’t want to buy a new WizzGig 5000 because a dinky part broke in my old Wizzy 650, but if there are no spare parts to be found, it may well be worth it, to me, to spend the time to make a replacement part. Someone else on the other side of the globe isn’t going to make one for me, so I have to choose between buying a new WizzGig 5000, making a replacement part myself, or doing without it.
- dognotdog 12y agoIndeed, the point is that working and buying a new device would net me more money than spending the time I could've worked on fixing the device. I agree with you, though, I'd also rather fix a broken part that cost a dime, instead of throwing the whole thing away. It's just not worth it, if I only look at the money angle.
- teddyh 12y agoYou still seem to assume that it wouldn’t actually be worth your time. My contention is that it might well be, unless your pay is astronomical. Imagine that the old model is discontinued and they only sell a different, newer, larger, much more expensive thing.