They probably could, they just value their leisure time more. As I pointed out, many posting on this site have a minimum opportunity cost of $2-4 an hour—by working on Amazon Turk. Why not? Because Amazon Turk is miserable, $2 is peanuts, and they obviously get more utility out of watching a movie instead or something.
I’m not going to judge them too harshly for choosing leisure over work that pays that little, even if it were for charity—I donate very little and I am very selfish and make similar choices all the time, so it’d be hypocritical.
But don’t try to tell me that there is no opportunity cost there.
Why was this downvoted to −3?
(Hey, there are quite a few people who couldn’t translate lots of spare hours into the corresponding amount of money.)
They probably could, they just value their leisure time more. As I pointed out, many posting on this site have a minimum opportunity cost of $2-4 an hour—by working on Amazon Turk. Why not? Because Amazon Turk is miserable, $2 is peanuts, and they obviously get more utility out of watching a movie instead or something.
I’m not going to judge them too harshly for choosing leisure over work that pays that little, even if it were for charity—I donate very little and I am very selfish and make similar choices all the time, so it’d be hypocritical.
But don’t try to tell me that there is no opportunity cost there.