If time is money, can I charge someone for wasting my time.?

That's a very good idea and I can relate totally.

I think some people have tried to charge (say) doctors for having to wait in the waiting rooms, when they had other important things to do, like run businesses. Their efforts failed in courts.

If you think about it, people charge others for time wasted. I don't want to think too heavy into this, because the whole economic system urks me...

(But) the lawyer that sits in a doctor's office, charges his clients for the time he spent there (not making money) so he can pay that and other bills; his clients charge their customers (for the time they spent not making money) so they can pay for lawyer's bill and others; and on and on....

I have often said that people should just do "something for nothing". If they did, it would be a much, much better world.

Wasting your time? Seems it, I'm sure. But you should be commended for the time you spend do things (for "nothing") for other people.

It's the rat-race of the rest of the world that makes your time so valuable. Example: If your shower leaks, you call a plumber. You have to work 6 hours to pay the plumber. You also have to spend two hours making cookies for your daughter's Girl Scout troop [something you do for free]. If the plumber's job was free, you wouldn't have to work those six hours, two of them would be spent making the cookies and you'd have four left over to do other things (for "nothing", maybe).

How much would the people, who you charge for your time, have to charge others to pay your bill? And then they would have to charge others - and they, others - it would have a spiraling effect! And, surely, the trend would catch on. Pretty soon, the already-astronomical cost of goods and services is even higher, because everyone is charging each other for their personal time, as well as for business goods and services. In the end, you'd have to pay more for your kid"s Nikes, working more hours and/or charging more for your personal time. The bottom line is the same: prices go up. Your time is valuable, but your doing something for nothing is even more valuable!

I stand in line at Wal-Mart, in a long line of customers, and wonder why, with a crowded store, there are only four registers open? Why did they put forty in? If they put another few cashiers on duty, would they raise the prices of goods? (Probably.) With customers in line, tapping their watches and giving each other that "I'm really a nice person, but I can't stand this" look, you'd think Wal-Mart would catch on. If we charged Wal-Mart for our time, you bet prices would go up! Wal-Mart is very arrogant to not respect our time - it IS valuable! Don't they see us, tapping our watches, in their security cameras??!! (They probably do, but figure they are saving money. POOR Wal-Mart!! [Those people are too rich!] We pay for that arrogance, and work long hours to do it!]

Maybe this rambling makes no sense, but THANK YOU for all the time you do "something for nothing", because you are helping the cause, keeping down the cost of living!

If there aren't enough hours in a day to do all that's asked of you, learn to say "no!" Don't be driven off the deep end ... Shrinks are expensive!