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by rglullis
3889 days ago
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Another way to go around it: you pay $20/h to a job that usually takes X hours to do it, so in the end you will pay 20 times X. I bring someone else to work with me, and we both do the job in X/2 time. I pay $10/hour for the subcontracted person. So assume a 8 man-hour job. You will pay $160. I keep $120, the subcontracted $40. My effective rate was $30/hour. You don't think this is a problem, as you see your house cleaned just like usual. Next time, I bring 3 other people. We finish things in 2 hours. I pay $60 to them, I keep $100. My effective rate was $50/hour. Next time, I bring 7 other people. We finish things in one hour. I pay $70 to them, I keep $90. My effective rate was $90/hour. I use the other 7 "working" hours of the day to play videogames. |
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How are you able to assume this, since I actually would very much see it as a problem if 3-4 people I don't trust to clean my house as much as my housekeeper are inside doing the job? Your underlying assumption is that I'm an idiot and can't see what's happening. She couldn't subcontract the work for the same reason I can't subcontract my work at my current job - my employer would see through it.
> I use the other 7 "working" hours of the day to play videogames.
Not many people would come out for $10/hr for only one hour. What about travel time? And the organization necessary to make sure the quality is still high? I think you're lampshading a ton here.