----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 5:25 PM Subject: Re: Time *is* money, after all!
> << That should be interesting when paying for something. "How will you be > paying? Cash, Visa or minutes?" :-) > > Paying for your groceries: "That will be 1 hour, 32 minutes and 12 seconds, > please." :-) >> > > > Sounds like the beginning of a barter system. In exchange for my repairing > your car (which took me, say, 4 hours and fifty-five minutes), I get the > exact amount of your time doing something for me that I could not otherwise > do myself. Or else, you just pitch your minutes into a big bin and withdraw > the equivalent number of someone else's minutes. > > Feasible? What happens when someone has a rare, highly prized skill? The average wage you are talking about is $9.00/hour. I wonder how many people here would be willing to work for that. Dan M.
