Our Incredibly Precious Trades Heritage

Leland writes:
 >>Style and fun.  One always hears "time is money", well you need time 
to be free, but you don't need money to be free.<<

"Time is Money" comes from the corporateers who operate down along the 
FastThingsCheap line on the triangle. Time is money to those whose 
mission is to get money by grinding up the resources as efficiently as 
possible. The type of time in "Time is Money" is clock time, measured in 
hours, minutes, seconds, nano-seconds. In fact, it was the corporateers 
who "invented" and promoted the general societal conversion over to 
clock time, during the buildup of the industrial revolution. Before that 
practically everyone was on "event time," typically measured in days, 
seasons, and years; or in other increments like lambing, or wheat 
harvest, or make a table, or walk to Boston.

The time your need to be free is event time, seldom found on the 
FastThingsCheap side of the triangle, easily found over on the 
CheapRelationshipsGood side.

I agree that you don't need money to be free. One of the strategies of 
the corporateers is to conscript the peoples' time and attention so they 
only have time to work and buy, with little or none left over to pursue 
their own interests, or freedom. It's beginning to look like freedom is 
more easily found over on the CheapRelationshipsGood side of the triangle.

John

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