> I don't hire someone to brush my teeth for me at $65 / hour or $250 / hour etc.
But that's not how the numbers you're pointing to were generated. They put a $39/hour figure on the time people spent to do their own taxes. My point is that if you put a $39/hour figure on say brushing and showering, you get something like $15,000 per year spent on personal hygiene, about 1/2 of the individual income.
You brush your teeth so your mouth doesn't taste like shit and your teeth don't fall out. You hire an accountant to do your taxes because the tax code cannot be understood by anyone who hasn't devoted his life to deciphering it.
The difference is that there's not a damn thing you can do about your teeth getting dirty (but brush them), but the tax code could be a hell of a lot simpler if only they'd stop making it more complicated.
But that's not how the numbers you're pointing to were generated. They put a $39/hour figure on the time people spent to do their own taxes. My point is that if you put a $39/hour figure on say brushing and showering, you get something like $15,000 per year spent on personal hygiene, about 1/2 of the individual income.