Who defines valid here?
The dictionary?
Valid. reasonable or acceptable
Seriously, are you related to pchaos?
How about a straightforward utility analysis? My time is worth more, figuratively and, during certain hours, literally, than the cost of paying someone to do it for me. Same reason I pay someone to clean my house and come in while I’m at work to walk my dog.
Yep. I cannot afford to change my own oil.
When I was working overnights at Safeway early one morning one of the company’s IT guys came in to perform a software update on the antiquated computer that we used to send orders to the warehouse. This was a beat up piece of shit 15-year-old 286, and the IT “expert” the company sent looked like he graduated from high school last week.
Anyway, I showed him to the computer and walked away, and about 20 minutes later he came and found me on the floor and said he had a problem, so I walked back to the computer with him and asked what was up, and it turned out his problem was he didn’t know what a C prompt was or what to do with it. I took the disk from him and updated the computer myself.