The Cost of Not Understanding the Question

Theoretically, the more time you put into something, the more money you should get out of it. This is not always the case, obviously, for many reasons. Some people have very specialized jobs that not many people can do, and they get paid more for less time. The concept that time is money has implications in every area of life, whether you are working or not. Time is the only currency that you can't get more of. You have a certain amount of it, realizing as I say this that time in and of itself is a human creation that doesn't actually exist, and then you die, and you are out of time. Money is a way of getting things for the amount of time you've put into something. Since you can't get your time refunded, we'll give you money to make up for it.

In factories, time is money in many ways. The faster you work, the less time you use per product, the more product you can create, sell, and subsequently earn more money. If you slow down, it can cost money, or at least profits, because there will be less product, so there will be less income, and the spending will not decrease proportionately.

The more intricate and time-consuming something is, the more expensive it is to consume, so the more time you have to put into something else to earn it. It's a great cycle, isn't it?