We live in a time where the consumer is the servant. Your time is worth little. Your value proportinate to the value you provide to the corporate mechanism.
You attempt to reclaim power over your time, attention, privacy, value, and you are met with long holds, phone calls that promote more consumption, increased debt, and services you don’t need. I wish I can quantify my personal time, and charge it as labor back to a corporation. Imagine if the law were setup that way. Companies would quickly respect their customers.
Here is an example invoice addressed to one company, which I hate and will not mention for fear of retaliation:
3.2 hours; phone call (including waiting, being on hold, and conversations)
1.5 hours; chat (automated and with human operator)
.5 hours; solicitation advertisement of additional products or services
5.2 total hours at $15/hr
$78 Subtotal
Imagine if I charged all businesses I interact with for unnecessary use of my time, aka, wasting my time. Unlike what they think when they’re crunching their accounting figures, my time is worth a damn.
Just a thought.
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Most people aren’t free. They’re just functioning inside systems they didn’t design. Renae Matthysse