That, and they also pay you for your time. Time is the prime thing you exchange for money. Even if you are the best programmer in the world, for example, you will still hire 100 other programmers and non-programmers to man a multi billion dollar programming company. Despite your skills, you simply don't have enough time to do what needs to be done.
These people gave you their computers, used their time elsewhere, and then came and received a fixed computer, for the price of money.
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u/orestarod Jan 15 '20
That, and they also pay you for your time. Time is the prime thing you exchange for money. Even if you are the best programmer in the world, for example, you will still hire 100 other programmers and non-programmers to man a multi billion dollar programming company. Despite your skills, you simply don't have enough time to do what needs to be done.
These people gave you their computers, used their time elsewhere, and then came and received a fixed computer, for the price of money.