 | | Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
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| (...) Every time you pay someone else to do something you could do yourself, you invest money to get time. Cleaning services, diaper servies, oil change services... I'd class all of those that way. Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
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| (...) find a (...) Indeed. And one of the basic tenets of capitalism is that while it's not possible to make goods appear out of thin air, it IS possible to make wealth seemingly appear from nothing, in that every time someone invents a new more (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | Re: Swapping money for time (was Re: Lego Maniac's Webring and Yahoo)
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| (...) a (...) -ish. I would argue that the above aren't turning money into time, just letting me spend time more efficiently. I boil it down to: I can spend 8 hours, and a modicum of effort, and earn/generate a certain amount of money. i.e. Larry's (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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