The internet has misattributed to Mark Twain a quotation: “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” I first heard and anchored on it as “I’d have written a shorter letter, but I hadn’t the time.” To my ear, it has a nicer waltzier swing.
Ironically, none of the sources of this quote managed to say it as parsimoniously as the internet rock-tumbled version. Presumably, they hadn’t the time.
My first book took 16 years to write, and was nine pages long. My forthcoming book on Kabbalah has taken another six years, and it will be one page long.
Nobody can accuse me of failing to write a shorter book because I hadn’t the time.
Time is money. Is money time?
If time is an invented construct for synchronizing people with each other and with the universe. Is money an invented construct for synchronizing what?
If you’ve read a few of my posts, it’ll be obvious to you that I’m a quarrelsome person who can split a hair atom.
So obviously I must argue with several of your points, which, by the way are very interesting — and in my world interesting is at least as good as true. :) So thank you for the provocation!
I would argue that money is temporal, but that we should not identify money with time.
Money is temporal because it is connected with value exchange, which is essentially an event in time.
Money is a device for storing value exchange potential, much as a battery stores potential energy exchanges.
I’m just throwing this back to you, in half-baked form, to see if you’re game for more. I’ve never thought of it this way before, and it feels like the beginning of a potentially fruitful line of thought.