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Can "saving" only involve money/currency??

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peachmat posted on Wed, Jan 20 2010 2:21 PM

Can "saving" only involve money/currency??

 

In an economic sense, can it also apply to labour, and time?? If you start fundamentally defining what money actually is i think saving actually refers to your labour and time.

 

What are your thoughts??

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Jorge A. Medina:
You can't save time because you can't hold it in your hands?
correct

Jorge A. Medina:
Time is a scarce resource and like any resource can be consumed or not consumed.
ok, i dare you to not consume the next second.

Jorge A. Medina:
 In the case of time, the consuming takes place in deciding how to consume, not if it should be consumed.
so its different than other resources. i agree that it is different !

Jorge A. Medina:
What will I spend my time on?
yes. always; on what shall i spend the time at my disposal now....?and never, what time should i save now, so that i can have the stored up time at a later time when i would prefer it.?

time is at ones disposal. the disposal is compulsary and you will dispose of it. never saving it.

Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid

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nirgrahamUK:
i dare you to not consume the next second.

It pains me.  Touche!

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It has been my honour good sir. .....till next time.

Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid

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Jorge A. Medina:
Are you saying you can't save time?

When people say they are "saving time" they are merely employing a euphemism for saving labor or making labor more efficient. There is no way for a person to vary the amount of time they consume (Einstein notwithstanding).

 

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DBratton:
When people say they are "saving time" they are merely employing a euphemism for saving labor or making labor more efficient. There is no way for a person to vary the amount of time they consume (Einstein notwithstanding).

Excellent point.  Thanks.

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replied on Fri, Jan 22 2010 4:53 AM

start with calling saving the involvement of money and currency.

think of other words for labor and time and other stuff and use those.

 

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