I live on a fixed income, so hourly wage isn’t a very relevant metric. It wouldn’t even fit in my place. I couldn’t take it with me when I move, and I move a lot.
Would even this [source] be too large? It’s only ~50lbs (~22 kg), so moving it should be possible. (This is not an endorsement of the specific machine or this class of machines, I didn’t look very closely.)
I can’t sell an extra hour either, but reverse the situation: would you be willing to wash dishes for an hour for $2? (If so, I have a few jobs for you that are harder to automate than dishwashing… ;-))
I’ve lived in apartments where this would not fit. And I don’t think I know anyone who, after finishing dinner, would actually go and earn money during the time they used to spend washing up.
Everyone in the western world you mean ? Because 2 euros per hour is much more than the minimal wage in many countries. Sorry for nit-picking but forgetting that more than half of the world doesn’t live in as much comfort as we do is a frequent bias (probably a consequence of availability bias, we don’t see them as often).
Dishwasher efficacy is variable. Where I live, the water is actually hard enough that I have to hand scrub most of the dishes I use because the dishwasher alone won’t clean them properly. It only barely takes me less time to get many of my dishes dishwasher-ready than to clean them entirely by hand
“Shut up and multiply” works for practical purposes too.
(One of my favorite shut-up-and-multiply results: automatic dishwashers cost less than 2 euro per hour saved, so everyone should have one.)
I live on a fixed income, so hourly wage isn’t a very relevant metric. It wouldn’t even fit in my place. I couldn’t take it with me when I move, and I move a lot.
Would even this [source] be too large? It’s only ~50lbs (~22 kg), so moving it should be possible. (This is not an endorsement of the specific machine or this class of machines, I didn’t look very closely.)
I can’t sell an extra hour either, but reverse the situation: would you be willing to wash dishes for an hour for $2? (If so, I have a few jobs for you that are harder to automate than dishwashing… ;-))
I’ve lived in apartments where this would not fit. And I don’t think I know anyone who, after finishing dinner, would actually go and earn money during the time they used to spend washing up.
Everyone in the western world you mean ? Because 2 euros per hour is much more than the minimal wage in many countries. Sorry for nit-picking but forgetting that more than half of the world doesn’t live in as much comfort as we do is a frequent bias (probably a consequence of availability bias, we don’t see them as often).
True, but “everyone on LW” seems to be fairly defensible.
Dishwasher efficacy is variable. Where I live, the water is actually hard enough that I have to hand scrub most of the dishes I use because the dishwasher alone won’t clean them properly. It only barely takes me less time to get many of my dishes dishwasher-ready than to clean them entirely by hand
You’re assuming away a lot of individual variation in time spent manually washing dishes.