People naturally understand the value of time only when their first job is paid hourly; in India, where salaries are monthly, people never develop an intuitive sense of hourly value, leading them to make poor time-allocation decisions like spending hours deleting WhatsApp photos to save $1 on cloud storage rather than buying the cloud service.

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Kunal Shah

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almost everybody's first job paid them an hourly salary in india nobody has ever earned an hourly salary in their entire life now there's a dangerous thing that happens because of that nobody understands what's their value per hour

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Core Human Motivations | Kunal Shah | Knowledge Project 141The Knowledge Project Podcast
Created: 8/10/2026, 11:29:51 PM

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