Thoughts on a norm of putting your happy price for an hour of your time, spent however (within reason) in your display name?
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one thing i've learned about myself is that i don't have a happy price that's independent of the other person. there are people i'm happy to talk to for hours for free and there are people i wouldn't want to talk to no matter how much they paid me
To boot, in my experience no matter what N*(happy price) multiplier you use, if they're even 2/3 the way to that latter category it is only a matter of time before that happy price ain't happy anymore.
Is it increased overhead costs due to stress? Or is it inflation of distaste?
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i imagine this wouldn't work in practice but it would be funny if you put something like "talk to me for 1 min and i will create a function for your costs over time"
also this basic calculation is essentially how dating works
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Makes sense, but are there not people in the middle category, like Twitter people who follow you but you don't know well?
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sure. but the general point is it’s heavily a function of the other person. basically any happy price i could name publicly, there are people who could ask me for my time at that price and i still wouldn’t actually want to
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