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Old 08-28-2012, 01:44 AM   #69 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Vman455 View Post
This assumes that every time you drive, you are eating into time when you otherwise would have been making $40/hr.
No, it doesn't assume that. It means that a person values their time at least as much as the rate they are paid while at work.

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Simply replace that valuable time with the cheap time you would have spent in front of the TV (I assume you aren't being paid for that), or time you would have spent lingering after a meal, or the time you wasted sleeping past your alarm, and use that when you're "stuck behind people that refuse to drive the speed of traffic" instead of your $40/hr time. Problem solved.
Most people value that time doing "nothing" at a higher rate than they are paid. That is why they have to be paid overtime to work more hours per week. The less free time one has, the more valuable it becomes.

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By the way, rounding up to the nearest minute, that will be $3.30 please, for wasting my time.
Your choice on how you spend your time. Your comments have been more "wasteful", so perhaps you owe others?
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