Time is money!
This refrain I've heard for years. No, decades. And it continues.
But is time really money?
Time is money - if you're paid for it. Generally speaking, I don't have hordes of people lined up outside my doorway, breathlessly waiting to pay me money for breathing air. So let's set aside that you're always getting paid something, which seems to be a really poor assumption on the part of the "Time is Money!" crowd.
Let's either point out the elephant in the room or burn the house down trying.
Time is someone else's money. Because you're only getting paid for your time when someone else is paying. You can't just pay yourself - that's silly. Or, at least, counterfeiting. But back to the point - someone else is involved in trading your time for money.
Why bring this up? Because a few years back, all kinds of people in the computer industry were trying to say that Linux wasn't worth their time because of Jamie Zawinski's "Linux is free only if your time is". Well, duh. What are you going to do Jamie, run up and shower me with dollars for using software?
People took this as "stay away from this because you'll spend money". Obviously the same people who are clamoring at me with "Time is Money!"
And so we come full circle.
