From kclau.com
On my flight from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, I got the chance to watch the movieIn Time starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. If you haven’t watched that movie, I would highly recommend it.
The movie setting is based on a future where people are engineered to stop aging at 25. You simply won’t know what’s a person’s age by look. They all look young including all the grandparents. After age 25, they will only live one more year. Then time become the only currency. Everyone pays for meal, rent and even gamble in terms of time. In other words, you will get paid in “days, hours, and minutes”, not in US dollar, Malaysian Ringgit nor UK Pound for your work. Similarly, you pay for stuff in “minutes, hours and days” too e.g. a cup of coffee may cost “10 minutes”, a taxi ride costs “25 minutes” etc.
If you think hard enough about the message conveyed through the movie, there is somehow a lot of similarity to the situation we face in this capitalism world. We trade stuff using currency, or money. But how do you get money if you inherit nothing from your ancestors? Without money already sitting in your bank, you got to make an effort to earn money. Money won’t simply come to you for nothing. It is a fact that for most people, time is in fact money.
