humdinger

you have all undoubtedly heard the phrase "time is money" be used before. but do you know who is credited with coining the term? take your best guess.

time's up: the man of the hour is benjamin franklin. surprised? i sure was. i had envisioned this most canonized term was coined in more recent history, say, within the last half century by a strapping man resembling don draper of the popular mad men series. i'm going to put aside the feelings of jealousy i have towards any individual who during their lifetime has managed to immortalize a phrase and instead share my train of thought: time equals money. i can agree with that. time in the working world is equated with a dollar amount, hence the expectation that the more hours you afford to a given task the more money you should expect to receive in return. obviously, the nature of the occupation calls for a variability in this equation, which we can see by the value society places on an hour's worth of work in a doctor's office compared to the same amount of time in a drive-thru window. so 'time' is a very valuable yet intangible entity. but what if we could objectify time...what if time was something we could touch, feel, and exchange between one another. imagine a world where this was possible. would time be earmarked into different categories, such as "family time", "personal time", and "a waste of time"? what kind of 'time' would you purchase, and at what cost? just imagine a world where money could actually be used to purchase a block of time. what would happen?