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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
* If a worker in a particular field is earning x amount then why should I pay more than that? If the going rate for cleaning your apartment in your city is $100 then why pay $200? Sure, maybe you would pay a little more for a good housekeeper you can trust but 2x? I wouldn't, maybe you would.  |
you're still mixing up 2 different things (imo anyway, I should clarify - I'm not the authority on that of course).
the question isn't whether you are simply 'paying double', it's whether you are getting value, and in turn making a profit on top. A more apt question would be: if a cleaner's average wage was $2 an hour, would you pay someone $4 an hour for that same job, who you could trust, to enable you to free up your $100 an hour time. There is no $100 an hour or $200 an hour in the equation here, it's irrelevant to this specific issue
You are doing the classic 'optical illusion' thing of maths (like that famous pick from 3 doors, take one away, do you stick or swap that I can never remember the name of offhand) and letting what you perceive as logical reasoning interfere with the numbers. By taking an actual case scenario, and saying 'what if a cleaner etc etc', you bring imagination and emotion into a numbers-only decision.
If the numbers *were* $100 vs $200, then you go only on *that* case scenario to come to a decision (which quite obviously would be a different one, 99% of the time). So what I'm saying is basically, is deal/contract A viable for you, do you get value. Make your decision based on that alone, and not on what a cleaner in new york might earn, what the guy's next door neighbour earns, or anything else that isn't specifically the issue at hand.
Do that with the next decision, and all the ones after that.
That's not to say you might not want to see if you can get someone cheaper, I'm saying that just keep an eye on your reasoning for wanting to do so - it comes from a 'fear' of missing out/feeling conned/etc, which are emotion-led, rather than purely 'is this good business for me' which is numbers-led and of course free from emotion. That's not a good long term strategy, whether it be on the hardass-fuck-them or the moral-crusader-pay-way-too-much side of things.
Of course even then most people (including myself) don't stick to that 100% of the time, and like most everything, it's more of a guideline for decision-making... there will always be variables where humans and their emotions are involved