I think you’re misapplying the method.
“Pay $8 to spend an hour on anything”—you’re counting the cost twice: one time spending the money, and the second spending the time.
Maybe a better metric would be “I’d rather be paid $8 for spending an hour doing exactly nothing”.
It makes sense, but I can’t entirely convince myself that it’s the best way to look at it.
A gut feeling that something’s wrong—I cannot throw out the time from the equation.
Ad absurdum—I look at everything that I can do with my free time and decide nothing is worth paying $8 per hour. So what do I do?
Maybe work, so I can get my $8 back. Yeah, that’s the idea.
I’m not convinced that it’s the best way to think about it.
I think you’re misapplying the method. “Pay $8 to spend an hour on anything”—you’re counting the cost twice: one time spending the money, and the second spending the time. Maybe a better metric would be “I’d rather be paid $8 for spending an hour doing exactly nothing”.
I may be wrong, though.
I think they meant it more like “Spending an hour of time on doing X will feel the same as spending $8 on doing X from the inside.”
I may be wrong, though!
It makes sense, but I can’t entirely convince myself that it’s the best way to look at it. A gut feeling that something’s wrong—I cannot throw out the time from the equation.
Ad absurdum—I look at everything that I can do with my free time and decide nothing is worth paying $8 per hour. So what do I do? Maybe work, so I can get my $8 back. Yeah, that’s the idea.
I’m not convinced that it’s the best way to think about it.