Why is time money and not, say... waffles?

niktemadur@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – -11 points –
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Money is waffles so by the transitive property time is waffles too!

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

$20? But I wanted a peanut.

β€œIt’s just a waffle house jukebox, my brains are spinning around…”

Not a child of the south, but money does translate to waffles, so time must as well.

Or something like that.

Serious question? The principle is called "opportunity cost". Chilling out and touching grass is free - but you could also have spent that time working, producing stuff, learning or whatever. You have "lost out" on a potential benefit due to exactly how that time was spent.

Because you could use your time to work and make money. Labor is kind of selling your time to other entities and doing their stuff. And even an enterpreneur can use time to grow their business. Or capital alone regularly grows with interest or by investing it.

You could also use your time to make waffles. That'd be oddly specific, but even then you could sell those and you'd end up with money again... And exposing waffles to time just results in them growing mold.

Because waffles aren't making you any money. They're only making you full.