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Interesting proposition at any rate. I do think there’s a lower limit. I suspect it’s closer to $20 though.
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i think it's one of those "imagine you're billing yourself at your own consulting rate" things but i've never been convinced that is 1:1
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I offer myself a really good hourly rate of $0 🤣
I think personal time is best thought of as marginal cost of paid work declined. What price would your n-th work hour have to offer to prefer it over personally.
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there's a great book called Make The Bread, Buy The Butter that talks about this specifically w/r/t food, would highly recommend as a lens into the mind of someone who deeply thought through this issue in a subdomain:
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A 30-round Glock mag costs around $40, and around $12 to 3D print yourself.
The 3D printer cost excluded, and the homemade ones break more easily.
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Does this factor in the lifecycle of sub 20$ products? If I can forge one razor from found rebar and shave my face with it, there goes many CVS visits.
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cooking insane meals using top shelf ingredients still works out just because you can't even buy food that good.
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It depends on what you're getting out of the DIY. I'd get more from an hour of work + buying the thing if it were 20 bucks, but lots of DIY makes me feel good and an extra hour at work kinda sucks.
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need to map it...depends on how novel the requirement is. Making your own example of something that Home Depot sells for <$200 - will prob cost more - made custom perspex lids to use my in stock pots - sub $40 and <.5 the cost of a made product








