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oh I am? so your time has no value?
there is this bridge I want to build and since you have so much free time and don't value any of it, why dont you help me. since I'm providing the materials making it free, it shouldn't be a issue, right?
The value of anything is relative and only definable against that other circumstance.
Please allow me to introduce you to the concept of “opportunity cost.” Turns out you’re just using faulty logic to convince yourself that a burrito taxi is saving you finite resources.
This entire conversation is frustrating for a few reasons: it’s increasingly common (particularly in online spaces), it adopts the trappings of a logical conclusion while eschewing the necessary underlying frameworks and requirements of intellectual honesty and consistency, and it stems ultimately from a purposeful and willingly architected delusion.
sigh... your applying "value"(monetary/finance), to "value"(possessive)...
is it saving me financially? no, ofcourse not. im not a business, I'm not selling the servings I'm making, and buying them back from myself.
however, energy is finite. let me introduce you to spoon theory. the point that the trappings of mental exhaustion from physical and mental strain have a cost on your health and well being.
that cost /becomes/ monetary later when you lose the ability to maintain the money earning opportunities or expierence injury as a result of overwork. very real things that occur every single day.
point being, that Friday night beer and slice your m8 gets delivered from door dash is saving him from having a mental breakdown or being exhausted and burning himself on the stove. these are possessive costs that translate to literal finite costs later.
I return to my point I seem to be making alot lately, do people think "preventive care" is a scare word?
lol “spoon theory”
Fuck outta here with your pop psychology. Get back to Insta.
That's not what they're talking about. Time is still a straight line. In the time it takes to order Doordash, sit and wait, and eat, that is still time ticking by. What are you doing in the meantime? Watching TV? Reading a book? Playing a game? Still using time. That time could instead be spent cooking. I struggle sometimes to cook meals for myself and my partner but when I do I have fun. I'll put music on in the kitchen, my partner joins me and we have in depth conversations, and we make something that we need to survive (rather than a bridge, as your example).
Yes, if you choose to factor in the labour of making your own dinner into the cost of that dinner, it might end up a wash. But in terms of actual dollars when people are stretched thin enough in their wallet as it is, it's free to just make your own dinner with what you already bought.
I'm likely making frozen perogies for us tonight. I already bought everything for them. We already have the perogies. We already have oil. We already have green onions and sour cream. That's just things that already exist and money spent, most of which just exists here in perpetuity. I bought the perogies a week ago. The sour cream around the same time. Oil is just a pantry staple so it's always here. So in reality, when I make dinner tonight it costs me, tonight, in terms of dollars, absolutely nothing. No money spent. Just vibing in the kitchen making perogies.
you just ignored something core. time spent cooking can't be spent doing anything else. it's also mentally exhausting when you work 14.5hr days and have a 2hr commute.
I swear, you must live in a major city with that attitude or work part time... idk how many times I've gotten home on a Friday night so knackered from stop-go traffic for a hour and another of avoiding idiots jumping two lanes without signaling to exit... after working a full shift... that I can barely remember how to cook pasta, much less stand their chopping onions, peeling potatoes and browning mince.
you don't know exhaustion from work if you can honestly be like "lol, cook, it's no big deal". if I'm treating myself 1 day a week and it's effectively costing me less in that state. for real, what logic are you using.