> - "Do you know how much is a billion dollars?"
> - *"Who the fuck cares?"*
- A million seconds is **11 days**.
- A billion seconds is ==**31 years**==.
Society glorifies money-rich people, but [[Seek The UnderAppreciated|under-appreciates]] time-rich people.
The conspicuous consumerism lifestyle all-so-present in the world indirectly incentivizes us to make as much money as possible in order to... spend it.
A billionaire who is 60 has no value - you (young reader) wouldn't trade lives with them. But they **would** give out $1B to trade lives with you.
Case in point - Warren Buffet has a net worth of $136B and an age of 93.
How much would he spend to trade places with a 20-year-old (that has 2B seconds left to go)?
Probably $135.9B. Or outright everything.
Majority of people think they want money until they're forced to evaluate the lack of time that comes with it. Would you trade places with Buffet?
Financial [[Capital]] is only valuable in-so-long-as it covers your base needs. Once that is taken care of, the extra dollars experience exponentially-growing diminishing returns.
Money is abundant anyway - you can always earn more, and they literally print trillions of it.
Having a billion dollars is great, but having a billion seconds is priceless. There is NO amount of money that can purchase immortality. Every human eventually runs out of time.
That begs the question - ***how would you price the next five years of your life***?
# Time As The Only Valuable Thing We Have
Time, in my opinion, is the most scarce resource we have.
And by that line of thinking - it is the **most valuable asset** we as humans have.
It’s all we have, really.
That being the case, our goal should be maximizing the life we get out of the time we have - our [[Return on Time (RoT)]].