That well known quote by Benjamin Franklin in his 1748 essay “Advice to a Young Tradesman”.

More for a business minded person in that context clearly, trying to convey that time is a valuable resource, which converts to monetary value in that case and then used to decide if you are successful in that endeavour.

In many cases, we are conditioned to believe that money means so much in life, affords a certain style of life and opportunities, and therefore money becomes the driver of life. As sad as that is, it’s where we are. I have written many articles already about Cash, and how is it used for purpose as a tool of control, and even though people fight to save it over digital, it is still part of the play.

And now the costs of living are going up even further with their quest of Tightening the Screw on everyone as much as they can, well, not quite everyone. Because with one hand they take away from over here, and with the other hand they give it to someone over there. And money is the crux of it all, because if they couldn’t threaten you with fines, or price you out of everything, then there would be a more even playing field. But cheaters don’t want an even playing field, they don’t want a fair fight or for the ‘best man’ to win.

But what I find quite odd about it all, is that it is not ‘real’ as such. I know I can hold it physically, and it exists in our materially created world, but so does the game of Monopoly, or any other game. I can play it and ‘buy’ into the illusion of it being real for the duration of said game time. And then walk away when it’s over and forget about the banker, the properties, the pieces, the money and so on. But in the scaled-up version of it in society, we aren’t allowed to just walk away, being kept there by the bankers for a never-ending game that keeps you coming back every day. To play again and again until I guess they decide to shut it down or as in the game version occasionally where someone just loses it and flips the board.

So, to keep you playing, everything becomes about money. Yet I have mentioned before in What We Leave Behind, about it being a very rare thing to see someone’s lifetime earnings on their gravestone. How much money you made is of no concern once you are no longer here. But time, that is something that gets noted, from start to finish, our journey of Time. Which, ironically, is also an illusion, but one we work well with in this three-dimensional construct and seems necessary.

But while we are here, it appears to be a problem for many who are obsessed with money and the control it brings. For those who have too much, they want to control the direction of society and people in it. For those with too little, they are often forced to become obsessive about it, just to get by and survive. And others who have just enough, possibly spend time fearing and worrying about it, with it being used for threats or just generally weaponised.

It does appear, though there is another group now, who seem to lack monetary comprehension, or that it equates to time. The ones who get what they call ‘freebies and handouts’. And to them, I guess they are, but on the other side of that freebie, is often someone else’s time. Of which they indeed might not give two hoots about, harvesting people’s time and money from them, pimping off them. And clearly, many don’t have a problem with that to keep doing it, wanting to be a dependent. Facilitated by those who also want you to be dependent on the system and its mechanisms. Because if we were able to use our time wisely instead of spending our time making money, which we then spend, then things could be very different. Until then, make every second and every penny count…

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