• Steve
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    5 days ago

    It’s a real question. As an XRay tech I get paid $29.90/hr. That’s the real value of my work right now. Assuming I have the money available, if the cost is less than that, it makes sense for me to pay to not have to do it.

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 days ago

      You’re making a false equivalence between billable hours and personal hours. You’re paid 29.90 because you’re doing a specific task at a specific time, outside of those hours your time has a much different market value depending on what you are you able and willing to contract (which I assume is often nothing given you already have employment).

      The value of your work is contextual, basically. Mine too, everyone’s is.