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> Their lives are all about optimization of time resources / time management, and everyone should bow to their needs

You make it seem like they have a gun to the heads of the landscaper they hired to do a job, in which the landscaper now has money to do whatever want to do it with it.

To your other claim about not “working” during those 30 minutes. You are working every single minute of the day. It might not be for a paycheck, it is probably for your mental sanity by chilling out with a drink waiting for some food to arrive.

That was purely an economic decision that they value doing X over doing Y. That’s done with every transaction done throughout life.



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