On Time - The Real Currency
I don't appreciate when I see a young woman dating an older, wealthy man. She has not yet learned the value of the material she accumulates. The cost is her youth. Time is the ultimate currency. Life of the moment.
We amalgamate wealth to save time, but the time is the comodity and is finite, equal in value and potential between us. A business owner employs an individual to assist him with a task related to his business and would find no time saved as he carries on his task of business with still the same rest time as a man working for himself, by himself.
Wealth may be payed to someone else to accomplish a task in a faster time than it would take us, someone who is more inclined to the particular task, but we still have to work for a result. In sum, our capacity to expiriance a moment in time is no grater than someone with more money.
I can afford things Elong Musk could never. Privacy. Anonimity. Appreciation of the natural world. Wild deer meat. A self made wood bow. A trip alone to the Canadian outdoors. Not to shower at all during the week. To change the task i am working on ten times in ten minutes. Eat with my hands. Eat whatever I want. Have a robust physical disposition. Maybe some of those things he would not value, but I can still out buy them. Elong wastes time expiriancing things I could not be payed enough to endure.
As certain commodities become available, other become too costly, and so it was never about the price at all but the time we chose to invest in acquiring that thing or state. What was sacrificed to to get what we only immagined would be the result, would be the end goal - because what we get is often never really what we thought we were trying to achive anyway.
Time is the ultimate currency, as we think by spending it, we will save it too; but is this really the case on scales? We practice to achive a state of excellence in a disapline at the cost of potential.
We've all had those thoughts - "why does he need all that money?" The rich guys are still on the edge, they have only so much of a belly to fill, so much time to have fun, so much they can experience joy, sadness, hunger, worry.
How many times has your teather to life reached a wires breadth? So close have so many of use stared death and the devil in the face and sometimes we capitulate for another day, quit with regret, or stand halfway to the summit freezing, and never did the number in a computer somewhere representing our avaliable funds mean a thing to inner success or feeling of failure we experienced in that moment.
Money does not buy freedome. The meaning of current as applied in the lable of "currency" is a force which is not extinguished but transferred, moved around, re directed. People do not acquire abundant wealth, they control more of a particular form of force and thus less of another form. They trade time for experience. They trade the in opportunity. The economic term, opportunity cost, is ever present.
Anyway; why do I feel like so many people around me chase money, only monney? Maybe im just looking at the same things?
