[altmanaltman]

Don't think that's how most people see it. The worth of "an hour of your time" is basically 0 no matter who you are. If you're doing something specific (like working) then that hour of your time has value which is preset by your employer.

But that doesn't extend into all hours of your life. Your employer will not pay your hourly rate for your personal hours just to live.

You can of course then say "oh but I value my time," but value is subjective while the dollar amount isn't. If you truly believe that, then you also believe that people's personal time has different worth based on how much they're paid, which is a fundamentally wrong way to look at the world imo.

[andersa]

Many people are not salaried and can roughly convert more working hours into proportionally more money, so the comparison does kinda make sense. Why uselessly stand in line for an hour when you could use that hour to make more deliveries, do research on one of your clients cases, or whatever?

[altmanaltman]

In my personal opinion, because that's dehumanizing to yourself. It's the same as thinking every waking hour of your life has a dollar value in terms of dehumanizing.

In reality, every hour of any life is invaluable since you'll never get that back, no matter how much you're willing to pay for it.

But capitalism forces you to think in terms of your employer and bypass that basic humanity, and think of opportunity costs. There is more to life than just work and being "useless" is part of that life again in my personal opinion.

Not every second of your life has to be productive or have a dollar value attached to it. Yes, you can assign that dollar value to any hour of your life by choosing to forgo that free hour and serve your employer (opportunity cost). But the actual value of that free hour is still $0.