Blog #8- Space/Time

If time is money, then my time is not worth shit. I work at the Lego store here in downtown Chicago, and I get paid... not enough. I have worked at a lot of places in my 21 years here on Earth, most of them retail, and everytime I hear that phrase, "Time is Money", I can't help but think to myself, "Is this what my time is worth to (insert shitty part time job I've ever had here). Short story here, my time is not worth "x" amount of dollars. In fact, the whole basis of paying people based on time is a bit ridiculous. I don't work very hard at the Lego store, yet I get paid the same as most of the employees there. My slacking time build rocket ships is juxst as valued as their time doing the job we are paid to do. Is that right? Don'tt answer that, I like getting paid to play with Legos.

Whatever happen to getting paid for the job you produce? We have now gotten into a world where we no longer pay for a good, but rather pay for someone else's time in manufacturing that good. I don't care how long it took Andy McDickface to make my graphic tee, I just want to pay for the cost of the actual product. The time is out weighing the prodcut these days, and that is a dangerous slop to be walking on, because now people will begin to determine the value of our time. Come to think of it, they already have with minium wages and getting paid by the hour. Is your time worth $6.50 an hour? I think I could be doing something that is much more valuable with my time versus making that $6.50. Where does it end. If they can do that, then can I charge assholes that waste my time? "Yeah, um, I didn't really care that your baseball team needs new jerseys, and I am not really a chocolate fan anyway. So for the 15 minutes you were talking to me, wasting my valuable time, I am gunna need from you, wait let me see... $1.57". I would love to do this! And also, who is the one gauging how much time is worth? By doing all this we fall into a bad place where one day there will be no more emphesis on what is being produced, but rather how much time is being used to make it, and that is no way to decide anything. Time is a precious thing, we don't have much of it here on Earth, and having it cheapened by putting a price on it is sad. Enjoy, live it, and use it to your fullest.

-Corte