[fancyfish]

Agreed, I see this often where people confuse their marginal income (e.g. $0) with their total income. Most are paid a salary and don’t just choose to work an extra hour on a moment’s notice. Let alone the possibility of working 24x7 and having billable hours like a switch they can flip at any time.

The framing of something “costing me my time” has never made sense to me especially when someone tries to actually quantify it.

[vageli]

Even if you can't make money during that time, time is inherently limited and most people value their limited time on the planet. Some may value that time more than some arbitrary dollar amount.

[Dylan16807]

You can't reallocate time and money "on a moment's notice", but why does that matter?

Most events can be moved around, so even if there's a big delay on changing your work hours you can still exchange extra free time with extra money.

And people generally can choose how many hours they want to be paid for.

It's easy to quantify, it's just something that happens in bigger shifts. One hour by itself probably doesn't make you change your work hours. But as more and more hours pile up, eventually you might chose to reduce your work week by half a day. Or if you find yourself doing unimportant and uninteresting things very often, and with a shortage of cash, you might increase your work week by half a day.