• mirshafie@europe.pub
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    9 days ago

    Correct, but it’s also the time you lose when commuting, which also forces you to sit still. If you work 8 hours/day and have a 1 hour commute, then you’re effectively locked up for 10 hours per day.

    So currently I’m choosing between two jobs, one is a 15 min walk, the other with a 1 hour drive. It’s going to be the 15 min walk, easy, and the 1 hour drive would need a significantly higher paycheck for me to consider it seriously.

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      8 days ago

      That’s this section right here

      But factoring commute, that’s 40hrs + 10min a day travel time = 41hrs, 40min.

      I count any time I spend getting to this job and back as unpaid labor and thus it counts against the total pay.

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        8 days ago

        What I’m saying is it’s more than money. It’s time with your friends/family, it’s time cooking/eating healthy rather than fast food, it’s time in the gym or whatever.

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          5 days ago

          None of those things are respected in American society. Your time only has a calculable value when you’re generating profit for a pedophile.

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              1 day ago

              In that case, you can probably use the same metrics because some of that is accounted for by your job options. It could be better, but at least your pedos know how to keep the populace content.