lol e-mogged by the Top G again.

Cookcels like me BTFO

this is assuming they can spend 100% of their time pursuing opportunities that are feasible. can't wipe my ass missing opportunities. can't put in light bulb missing opportunities. can't wash car missing opportunities. sounds like the mind of a meth addict.

for most people pursuing opportunities takes thinking and strategic planning...and their will be down time between the idea/planning and doing the steps needed to put it into action. for example if hourly at home depot decides they like to move up to a manager...it's not like the steps needed to do that within the next 6 months would keep them from cutting grass.

Are you just talking about oil changes on cars? Most shop charge $125 an hour labor rate. So a person can still buy their own tools and be ahead.

Dropping clothes at a laundromat wastes time. I just put in my washer/dryer and clothes come out clean and dry.

You too poor to afford a washer dryer?

What kind of jobs have unlimited, ad-hoc hourly pay? You guys are driving for Uber or Doordash?

^^^this mindset will keep you losing

The question is not whether you can do the job cheaper

The question is whether you can earn more per hour doingwhatever it is you’re good atthan the guy changing your oil; and therefore whether it makes sense for you to go and earn that money, pay they guy to work in your car for an hour, and pocket the surplus.

Aka “specialisation”

Come on big ern you’re better than this

See post #13 for a broader list of examples of “work” with higher returns

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in “advanced” countries, but they have destabilized society, have made life unfulfilling, have subjected human beings to indignities, have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen the situation. It will certainly subject human being to greater indignities and inflict greater damage on the natural world, it will probably lead to greater social disruption and psychological suffering, and it may lead to increased physical suffering even in “advanced” countries. The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Furthermore, if the system survives, the consequences will be inevitable: There is no way of reforming or modifying the system so as to prevent it from depriving people of dignity and autonomy. If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. We therefore advocate a revolution against the industrial system. This revolution may or may not make use of violence; it may be sudden or it may be a relatively gradual process spanning a few decades. We can’t predict any of that. But we do outline in a very general way the measures that those who hate the industrial system should take in order to prepare the way for a revolution against that form of society. This is not to be a POLITICAL revolution. Its object will be to overthrow not governments but the economic and technological basis of the present society. In this article we give attention to only some of the negative developments that have grown out of the industrial-technological system. Other such developments we mention only briefly or ignore altogether. This does not mean that we regard these other developments as unimportant. For practical reasons we have to confine our discussion to areas that have received insufficient public attention or in which we have something new to say. For example, since there are well-developed environmental and wilderness movements, we have written very little about environmental degradation or the destruction of wild nature, even though we consider these to be highly important.

Are you high right now?

Poorcels are the ones with the most to gain

Sure there’s a budget constraint

I get that

But if they start small - say, hire a sitter for an hour to look after their kids

And use that time productively to work on their resume, apply for jobs

Once they have a higher rate of pay, they have got the ball rolling - from there they can hire a sitter more frequently, do overtime, start studying for a better qualification

You have to hire a cleaner because your imported wife won’t clean smh

She makes more money running the business

See post #1

Aren't you a plumber?

People who say this don't understand the concept of meal prepping


My wife will often cook meals for 3 days at once in about a 40 minute period

If I ate chipotle for every meal, that's about 60 bucks or so (I eat twice a day). For 2 of us, that's 120 when she made that all prolly for 20 bucks


The markup on restaurants is insane. It's at least 5 or 6x more expensive to eat out

I'm projected to make just over 100k, it's still worth it for me to do chores and cook.


OP is just subtle flexing again. The absolute madman.

The act of cooking & cleaning is pleasurable though. You get instant gratification pretty much.

Cooking a meal vs buying a meal

One is stress relieving, you get to be creative, you get the satisfaction of having done it, you've saved money, you've provided for others and you've given them something that they can't just go out and buy = special. When people are cooked for they feel cared about. Even if it tastes worse than something from a restaurant it's still more special. Gordon Ramsay puts his mother's cooking as the best in the world and I'm sure he means it.

The other is pretty much mass produced slop, delivered by a surly delivery driver who might have stuck a hand in it and stolen some, that's overpriced and from a kitchen which may or may not be very hygienic. No house filled with nice smells. No bonding. Just eating slop while checking on bitcoin price fluctuations or something because you're a CEO who can't take a break because someone on Instagram (who is secretly miserable) told you not to or something. Head filled with slogans about being on the grind. Belly filled with slop and min wage kitchen porter saliva. Why even bother. May as well kill yourself now if that's the pinnacle of life.

Read the OP. If you’re cooking because you enjoy it or for health reasons great. I specifically excluded these scenarios.

This is about spending time doing pointless chores to “save money” when in reality you are costing yourself far more valuable opportunities.

Expectation: "Gonna pay someone to do this so I can spend that time making more money".

Reality: *spends that time miscing*

What a stupid thread. Life is way too short to be so obsessed with making money 24/7. If you enjoy cutting the grass and mopping the floor, who cares. None of this even matters in 40-60 years when you're dead. American culture towards working and making money is so ass backwards and retarded. (Super Ded fkn Srs)

this is more about time management than being frugal per se

being frugal is not overspending on things like brands, where there's a certain cutoff point for the quality of a good and the price you pay for it

Well technically, your mom said I was very skilled at laying the pipe

I can see how you got confused though, son

Mom jokes were edgy in 6th grade.

I expect a little more wit from you, this reply was very lacking.

Sorry to trigger you

Something tells me you’ve had more than your fair share of atomic wedgies in your time

lol if this is seriously what you are saying you are missing out on by doing your own housekeeping. Do you think keeping house is a full time job, or that any of these take any considerable amount of time out of your day to day? Here's a hot take - you can go get drinks with your co-workers, update your resume,andclean up after yourself all while holding a full time job.

-Full time job
-meal prep
-laundry
-house cleaning
-lifting (lmao ignore that one since this is misc)
-some time of hobby (lmao ignore that too I guess)
-yard maintenance
-kids? (Lmao all the incels ITT - probably not relevant)
-social life? (Lmao again)

Guess we can just give up sleeping lmao

The vast majority of people are too early to say the yield curve has flattened off in terms of investing in themselves. I see it a lot with highly technical people who have never worked on their management and team leadership capability.

And in any case, that doesn’t prevent you from taking all the capital you have accumulated from your years of labour and investing it into your next big venture.

You can be doing laundry while you meal prep, cut grass or clean the house. If you have a SO, together you could be knocking out cleaning the house, laundry and cutting grass (and even changing oil in a car) all within 3 hours on a Saturday morning. If you don't have kids, a house shouldn't really be getting that untidy so you're talking a light cleaning.

Again, are you high?

Not wearing a hoodie and shorts to board meetings champ

It's time to start Fettermanmaxxing.