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Time's money, but how much? Here's what Americans think an hour of their time is worth

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024 11:07 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


This is a HILARIOUS read.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2024/05/01/time-i
s-money-value-of-time/73514699007/?tbref=hp


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This right here is why I don't have to slave away to make somebody else rich.


But good luck getting that $328.84 per hour you think you deserve, Millennials.

I'll remember what you think an hour of time is worth when you're paying me to fix shit you have no idea how to.


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Thursday, May 2, 2024 1:03 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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“It's a race to find happiness, whether that’s a better work-life balance or a $7 daily cup of coffee,” Empower said.


A lot of you could easily retire by the time you're 40 tops. But none of you got it in ya...

You learned all the wrong lessons growing up.

It ain't about how much you make. In the good times or in the bad times. It's about how much you save and commit to saving. When times are bad, but even more importantly when times are good.

And you ain't never going to do that buying $7 cups of coffee everyday.

That right there is why I gotta read article after article now about college educated white folk bitching and moaning they can no longer live on only $100k per year in 2024.

Yanno... now that we're all finally admitting that Joe Biden* fucked everything up.

Because if you can come right out and admit that you spend $7 every day on a single cup of coffee, well... one has to ask what other kinds of ridiculous stuff are you wasting all that after tax money that you earned on.

You dumb shits spend in 1000 days on one cup of Starbucks what I can live off of for an entire year.

Easily.

That $7,000 plus tax you spent on coffee in the last 3 years? You might as well have just lit it right on fire. That's more money than I'm ever going to spend on coffee for the rest of my life if I lived until I'm 80 years old. Likely without even adjusting for inflation. And I drink a pot or two per day with no quittin' in sight.

It's no wonder you're all going to die bankrupt if you don't have a million bucks in your 401k before you retire.

And trust me...

I do believe it when you say that.




Can't say that I can make much sense of your plight, but I can see that a good deal of you are in a very precarious situation right now. Don't look down.

I wish the best of luck to ya'all.

Enjoy the coffee.






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Thursday, May 2, 2024 4:01 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Parts of the article puzzle me...

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How much value you put on time depends on your age, the data showed.

Millennials (born from 1981 to 1996) place the highest value on their time, saying an hour was worth $328.84, with a quarter of them pegging that at more than $500 – the highest percentage of any generation. Only 6% of Boomers priced an hour at $500 or more.
Gen Z (born from 1997 to 2012) said an hour of their time would cost $266.92.
Gen X (born from 1965 to 1980) said their time was worth $215.90 an hour.
Boomers (from 1946 to 1964) said an hour of their time is worth $137.19.



OK, how did anyone arrive at this figure? Just ask people what they thought their time was worth? That doesn't make sense, or the answers don't make sense. How the hell does anyone figure their time is worth $500/hr?

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Time is so precious that 26% of Americans said they’d take a 15% pay cut for more free time. Millennials (41%) were the most willing to do so, Empower said.
Can they afford the pay cut? And, how much free time? Again, either the question or the answer doesn't make sense.


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Thirty-six percent said they’d rather pay more to get an item delivered instead of driving 10 minutes to get it, the survey said.
How much more? 10 cents? Sure! Ten dollars? No way!

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More than 2 out of 5 Americans said outsourcing household chores improves work-life balance. One-third of Gen Z would pay up to $5,000 a year to save time by forgoing tasks like cleaning and yard work, and 36% of millennials would shell out as much as $10,000 for someone to take on in-house chores and cook meals.
That's a lot of money!

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Americans don’t like managing their money. More than one-third of Americans procrastinate when it comes to money tasks like paying their bills, and 26% said they’d spend $5,000 annually to have someone else manage their long-term financials, investments, and savings.
At that rate, that investment manager better make a great rate of return!

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I guess I wonder what it is they'd like to DO with their time? If it's catching up on sleep ... well, I can understand it. If its just social media or playing videogames ... wow, can't they find anything more engaging to do with their time? What's more important? Providing for your family? Or Instagram/ TikTok?

Seems like people, especially young people who've been coddled most of their lives and not made to do things like... mow the lawn. Family laundry. Cooking for mom, dad, and sibs ... expect that they should be able to live the rest of their lives like the best point of their existance: high school, when mom came picked up your dirty clothes and returned them, clean, to your closet, and all you needed to do was hang out with your friends.

No wonder life is such a shock.

Life, I expect, is going to get much harder for us, and these people are so unprepared for tough times.

I think you are what you do, and if you do nothing, you are nothing.


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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Why SECOND'S posts are brainless: "I clocked how much time: no more than 10 minutes per day. With cut-and-paste (Ctrl C and Ctrl V) and AI, none of this takes much time."
Or, any verification or thought.

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Thursday, May 2, 2024 5:03 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Yeah...

Ya see though... I WAS one of those dumb kids myself at one point. I wasn't born with a silver spoon up my ass like a lot of them were, but the second I got my first good job I spent that money as quick as I made it. We are born and raised to be mindless consumers.

I'm not going to rehash the history again here because I've already beat that horse to death, but having bad stuff happen to me early on in my "working world" path taught me a lot of great lessons that stuck. And I learned them all by the time I was as old as any of them were when they graduated.

Babied and coddled all the way up until they graduated at 24 years old, they then benefited from 10 years in a great job market propped up by historically low interest rates and seemingly limitless venture capital. I'm sure they thought it was never going to end.

But that well's dried up now, and it's time for a whole lot of them to start learning some real life lessons. The world they thought they knew never really existed.


I'm sure one day they're going to look back and laugh at the notion that they thought they were underpaid at those old jobs they used to have as they bag somebody's groceries or make somebody their overpriced coffee for peanuts.

Hopefully they saved some money, because I don't know how many more opportunities they're going to have as more and more jobs get replaced with automation, and their "skills" that they learned in college and their high-paying job that they've already lost or are destined to lose aren't going to be worth anything once the real world comes for them. They have no skills. They have no ability to bring anything worthwhile to the table.

The only thing I ever learned before I was 20 years old that made me any money in the real world was a 1/2 semester keyboarding class in high school. I already knew how to read and do math before most other kids were being taught the ABCs. Everything else I ever learned that made me a dime was learned by men who worked hard all their lives, or was later self taught after I acquired the basic skills and a growing collection of tools.

I was like them once. I didn't even know how to do my own laundry when I left my house for my first apartment. Now I own everything I have and I can write my own ticket anywhere.

And in nearly 30 years since I started working my first job, I've only made about a quarter of a million dollars.

And these kids are going to whine that if they're getting paid that much in 2.5 years it's not enough to live on.

No tears for them.

Time to buy a helmet. The road ahead is rocky.

Maybe if their parents slapped them around every once in a while when they got out of line and the stakes were low, they wouldn't be in for the life-changing ass kicking that the real world is about to deliver to them.

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