On 2008-06-21 22:23:53 +0100, Roland Perry said:

In message 485cb360@qaanaaq, at 08:53:04 on Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Andy
Hall remarked:
Leaving aside the financial aspect, there are much better uses of time
than trips to the post office to spend 20p posting a letter.

That merely shows how extremely narrow your experience is.

On the contrary, the boot is on the other foot. It's a limited view
to be thinking of the lowest financial expenditure to have the lowest
cost when all factors, including how time are taken into account.

The majority of people have a fixed income, in the sense that their
salary is the same however many hours they work. Only the self
employed, or those who own companies (which amounts to the same) have
the luxury of being able to make a real tradeoff between time and
earning potential.

For everyone else, an hour spent saving £5 is just as useful as an hour
spent earning £5.

You have a very limited view.

There are certainly people with variable incomes where this is directly
or loosely related to hours invested. There are others whose income is
based on achievement of certain MBOs.

Generally it is those whose income does vary based on results, who are
the most able to manage their time properly and optimise where they
spend time or spend money to achieve their objectives.

It would be good if everybody were remunerated in that way.