According to Time Magazine
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Posted on: 2010-10-11 13:19 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
I disagree.
With enough money, you can essentially "buy time".
Win the lottery - You can now quit your job. You have just gained 40 hours (or more) a week.
Get a job making 2x what you were, but requires you to work 50 hours a week instead of 40. You "lost" 10 hours of time a week, but you can now afford vacations and things that will allow your time to be more suited to how you want to spend it. Therefore increasing your happiness quotient.
To quote a comedian (who's name I do not know):
They say money can't buy happiness! Well, to them I say "Just try and look sad on a Jet Ski!"
If you get rich enough, you pay other people to do the things you don't want to do, thereby freeing up even more of your time for things you want to do. I'd say that in almost every circumstance, money > time 
Also - Money only matters to people who don't have it. Like me.
I thought this would be a pun based on them trying to sell their magazine. 'Time' (Magazine) is worth more than your money(subscription fee)
Well...
According to them, Time is greater than Money....
but money makes the world go 'round...
and We are the World...
So they would have you believe that Time is greater than "We"
HOWEVER:
There is no "I" in team. Therefore, the Ebil (We) shall ALWAYS profit off of the lazy and the uninformed.
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That's the one I strongly disagree with. I'd rather have those 10 hours a week bumming around at home than a really high quality vacation in an expensive hotel with a jetski once per year. Or a bigger TV or faster computer or whatever.|
Originally Posted by Misaligned
I disagree.
Get a job making 2x what you were, but requires you to work 50 hours a week instead of 40. You "lost" 10 hours of time a week, but you can now afford vacations and things that will allow your time to be more suited to how you want to spend it. Therefore increasing your happiness quotient. |
Winning the lottery, maybe, although I've heard a lot of anecdotal evidence of that not working out too well for people.
Money's overrated.
My job is used to fund my hobbies, so there's a balance between how much I need to work in order to enjoy what I like to do. If I have to work overtime, but for more pay, I would prefer another job that requires less of my time but still good nuff to fund my hobbies.
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Money's overrated.
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Time can be substitued for money, money can't always be substituted for time. Time > Money.
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Originally Posted by Misaligned
I disagree.
With enough money, you can essentially "buy time". Win the lottery - You can now quit your job. You have just gained 40 hours (or more) a week. Get a job making 2x what you were, but requires you to work 50 hours a week instead of 40. You "lost" 10 hours of time a week, but you can now afford vacations and things that will allow your time to be more suited to how you want to spend it. Therefore increasing your happiness quotient. To quote a comedian (who's name I do not know): They say money can't buy happiness! Well, to them I say "Just try and look sad on a Jet Ski!" If you get rich enough, you pay other people to do the things you don't want to do, thereby freeing up even more of your time for things you want to do. I'd say that in almost every circumstance, money > time Also - Money only matters to people who don't have it. Like me. |
Quoted from Mr. Krabbs:
"time is money, so if yer wastin' me time, yer wastin' me money! And that's just sick!"
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Originally Posted by Misaligned
To quote a comedian (whose name I do not know):
They say money can't buy happiness! Well, to them I say "Just try and look sad on a Jet Ski!" |
Money can't buy you happiness, it can however rent it.
I decided time > money a long time ago.
I had a decision to make several years ago, carry on working and living as I was, retire in 10-15 years or live more cheaply, take a distance learning degree which would equip me to work in a different type of job, and maybe have to work 5 years at some point. I chose the latter.
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While we're on anecdotes, how about "Money can't buy you happiness, but it can sure make misery a lot more comfortable"?
Money may not be the key to happiness. But I'm pretty sure poverty isn't it either.
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While we're talking about this - what an arbitrary pair of things to compare.
Time is something everyone has. Everyone ironically has the exact same amount of time. How you choose to spend it is up to you - unless you're a slave... or a prisoner - then you don't have a lot of choices. So... we'll go with everyone else.
Money is something only some people have. A 2 year old has time. They do not have money (please refrain from talking about your child's college fund )
Why not compare Time and Oxygen. That seems more apt to me. Everyone has time and everyone has oxygen. If either one runs out, you're dead. So...
Which is more important:
Time or Oxygen?
So far as I know, there's a point up to which increased money produces increased happiness, and past that, it doesn't seem to at any point. In the US, I think it's something around $75k/year.
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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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Show me the store where I can buy more time. There are lots of wealthy old people that would love to shop there.
Oxygen? Any good welding supply store can fix you right up.
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Originally Posted by DevilYouKnow
Show me the store where I can buy more time. There are lots of wealthy old people that would love to shop there.
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Explain to me how you have more or less time than anyone else on Earth. There are 24 hours in a day. 365 days in a year.
Are you special? Do you get 25 hours a day?
No?
So what the basis of the argument about time vs. money is not the physical quantity of time, but the perceived quality of that time. Sometimes referred to as happiness.
And I'm just gonna throw this out there - do you read whole posts or is there something in you that requires you to randomly read lines from posts and toss up an opinion on them?
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Not all people have the some amount of time. Some people die at 40 and some at 80. The do not have the same amount of time unless you say that they each had 1 lifetime.
Nobody, when they are laying on thier deathbed ever wishes they had spent more time at work. Believe me, I have been with the dying often enough to know that they would gladly pay for more time if it were possible.
But you are arguing peceptual time vs absolute time. That introduces far too many variables to really compare. I don't know how old you are, but I can assure you, the perspective changes when you have more life behind you than ahead of you. But maybe you are the exception that proves the rule.
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Originally Posted by Misaligned
While we're talking about this - what an arbitrary pair of things to compare.
Time is something everyone has. Everyone ironically has the exact same amount of time. How you choose to spend it is up to you - unless you're a slave... or a prisoner - then you don't have a lot of choices. So... we'll go with everyone else. Money is something only some people have. A 2 year old has time. They do not have money (please refrain from talking about your child's college fund )Why not compare Time and Oxygen. That seems more apt to me. Everyone has time and everyone has oxygen. If either one runs out, you're dead. So... |
If withholdings were handled differently, you'd see a lot more sense in comparing time and money. How about waking up in May only to realize that you haven't started earning for yourself yet? You disclaim that slavery is irrelevant, but if you need to work for your money, then how is the confiscation of that money technically any different from part-time slavery? That question isn't posed as an incitement against government. Some amount of taxation is obviously necessary, but the power to compel payment, and thus labor, should never be taken lightly.
In any case, you brought up the very reason that money is comparable to time in the offhanded disclaimer at the beginning of your post. We are, in fact, all of us slaves to our own needs and our families'. Time is only equally available to the extent that we're all able to feed, clothe, shelter, protect -- and yes, find medical treatment for -- ourselves. That baby you mention actually has no time of her own. She has the potential to see a full life, but only if adults provide for her until she is self-sufficient.
By the same token, if you have money to burn, then you can live a life of leisure. You can't buy immortality, but you can buy the option never to work again. You can pay people to do things for you. You can buy various fancy devices to save you time.
Time really is money. Which is more valuable to you will depend on your situation, but they make for a perfectly apt comparison.
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Lack of vision.
You all seriously lack vision.
Here's your box:
When you wish to think outside of it, let me know
You all also seem to lack good reading comprehension. You read my words - pick out 2 or three that you like - then proceed to alter the definition they had out of context.
*shrug*
I won't argue semantics with people.
Everyone has an equal amount of time. For the next minute - you have exactly the same amount of time I have - 1 minute. You have exactly the same amount of time as everyone else right up until the second you die. At which point neither money nor time are relevant.
How you choose to spend that minute is up to you.
A rich person, or a person who has money, has more choices than a poor person. However, the choice is still theirs.
You need money to buy Time magazine.
I came to the realization in the last few months that I need more time to make more money, but I'll need to make more money to make the time.
Well, when you can frame a discussion without being condescending and in engaging in ad hominem attacks you might have a point you could discuss.
I understand your arguement. I just don't accept it as fact, as you seem to. Of course a person with money has more options and some of those options could equate to more time simply because they can afford better doctors and healthcare.
I don't find anything in your response that address my post other than "I won't argue semantics"
Does isn't strike you as disingenous to argue that quality of time is what matters (as you did earlier in this thread) and then also argue the absolute passage of time (as you just did)?
Do you beleive that time spent mowing the lawn is exactly equal to making love? In an absolute sense, that you seem to be arguing, that would be the case. Perceptually, one is clearly more pleasant than the other.
So are you saying that all time is equal or are you saying that how you spend the time matters?
I repeat: No one who is dying, no matter financial status, ever wishes he had spent more time earning money. Everyone of them wishes they had more time.
BTW, Time, Wealth? More important than either is Health. If you are sick all the money and time in the world can't make that time more pleasant.
Time > Money
But I already knew that. BUYITNAO!!!
http://healthland.time.com/2010/10/1...istake/?hpt=C2
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