How much is your laziness worth?

In a world where you can buy a manual to learn a new profession in seconds or hire someone with one click to help you get into the best university in London, people have learned to make money from knowledge, while others have chosen to pay for that knowledge as a consequence of their laziness.

Let's look at this with a trivial example. Let's imagine the average university student or office worker who, day in and day out, pops into a coffee shop near home for a freshly brewed cappuccino every morning. The most ordinary coffee for 20 working days will cost him 2 thousand rubles somewhere in Krasnodar, and 5,000 rubles in Moscow. He will spend 60,000 rubles per year. Congratulations, the lucky man has drunk a few days' holiday somewhere in Europe.

For lunch, our character will opt, at best, for a side dish with vegetables (the most budgetary option) for 100-150 rubles somewhere in a canteen nearby (36,000 rubles for the year). While cooking at home a packet of rice or buckwheat for a whole week will cost him 50 rubles, including electricity, water and gas, add vegetables - another as much (4,800 rubles for the year). Again he loses 30 thousand rubles.

And we forgot about going to a favorite restaurant with friends or Friday night out to the pub. Let's take an ordinary pasta carbonara with an average price in a cafe of 350-700 rubles. The self-cost of such pasta, cooked at home will come out to him somewhere around 150 rubles per serving. So the young man spent at least 24 thousand over the year, allowing himself to dine on a leather sofa once a week. And adding a modest 300-ruble drink to this meal, another 15,000 rubles.

Folding the morning coffee with a modest lunch, for a year our character did not save 96,000 rubles. In this case, a good coffee machine for the house is about 10 000 rubles, a kilogram of beans from Ethiopia - 1200 rubles, milk - 60 rubles per liter, a package of cereals - 50 rubles, and it would take him 20 minutes to cook, which can be combined with other household chores. Dividing the amount of buckwheat or rice for 3 days, we get 7 minutes a day. For pasta, if he did find time for it, it would take 30 minutes a day for 3 days, which means 10 minutes daily.

If he does find time for it.

We end up with a sum of 96,000 rubles for 40 hours of cooking, which means 2400 rubles of benefit per hour daily. So that's the arithmetic. Should we stop being lazy and give up all sorts of things that simplify our lives? No. Should we at least think about it? Definitely yes.