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Time is not money

August 22nd, 2009 buzzmaker No comments

I am sure you have heard many times people saying that time is money and you have taken this as a fact. In reality time is not money.  If you have a minute, can you sell it to me so i will have 1 minute more today, on top of my 24 hours? I am sure you can’t. Also if I am going to dye (which I will do for sure sometime), whatever amounts of money I will give you I am sure you cannot buy me more time.

So if you have “spare” time you cannot sell it, transfer it to someone who desperately needs it. The reciprocal thing is valid also: if you have lots of money you cannot get more time than you have already.

So what is the link between money and time? There are several links: If you have some free time you can use it and do something productive and earn money. Also if you want some more time for yourself you can delegate your tasks to others for a fee.

timeismoneyWhat if we try to plot a graph based on how much free time we have vs. how much money we have? One should expect, if money is can be converted to free time and vice-versa, that most people should be somewhere in the middle, keeping a balance between their time and their income. In fact we have a lot of people having no money but a lot of free time (in my country the pensioners are in this category), or  people having enough money but no free time while the ones that are able to keep a healthy balance and have enough time for them are the exception not the rule.

What about you? Tell me where are you on my graph and leave a comment bellow.