From: StealThisSheen | #082So what are you doing that an hour on a Sunday morning is somehow costing you the price of minimum wage. Most work schedules can work around somebody's churchgoing schedule, so unless you're going to say your free time is somehow more valuable than others'...
Wages aren't about the difficulty of work, no, but they ARE about paying you for actual work. Try going into your job, sitting around, then being like "Oh, you're paying me since you're taking my free time" and see what happens.
Simply taking away your free time isn't worth anything to other people to make it worth paying you.
But your free time is worth something to YOU in the sense that unless you are getting paid enough to give it up, you will hold on to it. It gives me x amount of happiness to be able to sleep in on sundays, unless the amount I'm getting paid exceeds that then I won't give it up.
That's completely fair to say. But your example isn't flat out comparing it to a job/something worthy of making minimum wage, either. Like, I get saying "I like ___, and it'd take X amount for me to stop doing that."
But then that's different from saying "That's less than minimum wage and I expect minimum wage" and having these expectations as if it's an actual job, when it's not.
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