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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.

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