Haha, you're right!
I think you're overestimating my editing career and demand, and taking that bit a little too far.
My computer's performance has never effected deadlines or my ability to turn in work on time. If something renders in say 2 hours instead of 1.5 hours, its not like Im going to have to call the client and tell them their project is gonna be late and miss the deadline.
Now you tell us.
And in your hourly wage scenario you proposed, I'd get paid more because it would it take longer to finish renders with the slower hardware.
That's not what I meant to impart. The idea is that is how many dollars in productivity it is worth, not what you are getting paid hourly. I did a poor job with my example.
I'm not some major player in Hollywood with jobs and jobs stacked up. Finishing one job sooner by a few hours has no major impact on my ability to start and finish the next job. I understand your math, but it doesn't translate into the real world like that... slower hardware = more hours so that would mean more money in your scenario, not less.
See my previous comment.
You mention you would buy AMD in a hot second for productivity. I think most people would, that's a given, but can you actually obtain it in a hot second?
Yes. While you are here debating me, I could have already bought one, because I don't nickel and dime myself if it is about business. I ran my own biz for many years, and understand you spend money to make money. I would have already bought one in a prebuilt or paid a couple of $100 markup so I could get to making that cheddar. In fact, if Threadripper is significantly faster than both at the task, I would have paid up for it. Time is your only real currency, and you have a finite supply.
The more time I spend waiting and trying to obtain a 5900x, is more time I'm not editing and making money. I can get the 10850k now guaranteed and improve my performance ASAP. Or I can play the F5 game and continue to edit on a 6 year old 6c.
That is one way to look at it. Let me provide another. You know why miners are paying crazy money for vid cards right? Because they expect a ROI that more than justifies it. As you just admitted a faster system will make you more money, why you would cheese on the performance for what is chump change in the scheme of things, is beyond me.
Either way I appreciate your perspective and insight.
No worries mate. Again, buy what you want. I write these replies more for readers looking for guidance. Reddit, forums, tech tubers, and viral marketers make it difficult for many, especially the novice, to separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff. I do my best to be an advocate for them. As opposed to pumping a company that I hold stock in, viral market for, or have warm feels about (the weirdest one)