Can’t recall where I saw this (help?) but rideshare drivers typically don’t work longer during surge to maximize revenue while there’s more money to be made. They just work till they hit their daily income target and go home. I think I’ll call this uberrational economic behavior.
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I don’t think any kind of huge returns potential would get me working 100h/week. Only thing that can get me putting in that kind of intensity is actually enjoying the work OR avoiding serious risk of pain/destitution. Money is just not worth that kind of intense effort for me.
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Maximizing money returns on effort intensity only makes sense under 2 conditions: a) you enjoy the intellectual challenge b) you want to buy something specific within a specific time horizon that demands
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Of course many in the US who work to maximize money beyond what they have meaningful designs for, without enjoying the work, do so for some sort of vague social arrival/identity validation/class membership aspiration. Join the rich class. Some who make it even seem to enjoy it.
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Of course this is middle-class privilege talking. Your life has to be pretty shitty for marginal income of the 9th hour of work you don’t enjoy to beat value of day’s first leisure hour. If you’re working yourself out of an external or internal hellhole, max$ may be rational.
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