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And time of the operator is $0 per hour as well
by brulard 9mo ago
And time of the operator is $0 per hour as well
- bigstrat2003 9mo agoWhich it is. Unless you would actually be getting paid for that time (which you wouldn't in most cases), the opportunity cost is $0.
- szundi 9mo ago[dead]
- wdb 9mo agoYou get paid in happiness of having and doing a hobby that brings peace and joy :))
- beng-nl 9mo agoWell said. I’m often nonplussed at these calculations of some fairly high hourly rate that we seemingly all should be able to command at will at anytime in unlimited supply. Well, I can’t.
- dragonwriter 9mo agoIf you would otherwise be doing anything with positive expected utility in that time, the opportunity cost is >$0. The fact that the analysis can be carried out in monetary units (because we don't have a good direct measure of utility) doesn't mean that receiving money itself is the only source of utility that needs to be considered.
- Aurornis 9mo agoPeople who 3D print as a hobby often derive enjoyment from time spent on the printing process. It’s another layer of hobby on top of the hobbies you’re printing
- throw3e98 9mo agoYeah a lot of my friends legitimately enjoy the art of making or modifying models in Blender, and the science of testing different print profiles, materials and processes.
- throw3e98 9mo agoMost of the time my time spend operating my A1 Mini is... maybe 2-3 minutes per plate? Drag and drop into Bambu Studio, run the slicer, send the job to the printer, come back in 4 hours and grab my prints. I might need to break off the supports and clean them up - but with an injection molded kit I'd be snipping the sprues, cleaning up mold lines with a knife and gluing the models together anyway. The commericial overhead rate for an SLA printer is about $5 a plate - the washing and curing steps can be largely automated, or even if they are done manually, it's not that much work.