Time is Money is Time is Life
Lately, I've been thinking about the idea that our money just isn't time - it's a portion of our life. When I go into the store and buy a bottle of tonic water, I'm not just giving the clerk $1.97, I'm handing over the portion of my life that it took to earn that $1.97.
True, I might aquire other things than money during the time that it took me to earn the $1.97, such as experience, a tan, more muscles, whatever.
However, I truly am trading a portion of my life for what I buy.
I wonder if we could move to a currency system where we can simply trade portions of our future instead of portions of our past (which is basically what most money is)? Of course, the complication in that is that we would then be forced to either die prematurely in order to pay-up, or become someone's slave for the last part of our life.
True, I might aquire other things than money during the time that it took me to earn the $1.97, such as experience, a tan, more muscles, whatever.
However, I truly am trading a portion of my life for what I buy.
I wonder if we could move to a currency system where we can simply trade portions of our future instead of portions of our past (which is basically what most money is)? Of course, the complication in that is that we would then be forced to either die prematurely in order to pay-up, or become someone's slave for the last part of our life.
posted by ToadRocket at 1:14 PM
2 Comments:
how depressing
of course, the invention of a time machine would totally complicate what I just wrote
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