Talking About Time As A Currency For The Poor

Описание: What I talked about in the video (Apologies for the background noise):

There is a waiting line for almost everything when you’re poor.

These things came to me while I was standing in the fourth line at the government hospital yesterday. The general ward was crowded, with so many things happening all at once. There was only one counter to book all the tickets, and based on what you say, they would recruit you to a particular ward.

In that ward, you have to wait in line to get your name registered. And then, to check with the doctor, you have to wait in another line. If, in any case, the doctor refers you to another specialist, then you have to stand in another line.

After the doctor prescribes you medicines, you again have to wait in another line in the general pharmacy to take the medicines. You always have to keep a significant amount of the day free if you want to visit the government hospital. And you know, in this situation, not even for a single time can you blame the government hospital authorities, because they are providing you with all of the treatment for free.

The only thing that you use as a transaction currency when you are poor is your Time.

That is why the rich people, the bourgeoisie, the decision makers, the leaders, the bosses, the owners, the manufacturers, always try different sorts of alternatives to save their time.

I have heard this quote somewhere once, that the only way to become rich is to buy another’s time. Because yours is limited. I believe almost no one in this world has ever become rich by trading his/her time for money. Working for hours every day, every week, for a salary at the end of the month, is a way to sell your own time for the dream of someone sitting at the top. You are the machines, and they hold the power over the manufacturing.

And honestly, a majority of the population is completely fine with it, because their reality is far more severe, far more depressing than it is. The average, the poor, fight for their survival, fight for enough food in their stomach, and shelter over their heads, they fight for their necessities. And in that process, they don’t get enough time to think about something more than that; they want to stay inside this circle because it feels safe. After all, they haven’t seen what remains outside the limited circumference, the finite boundary, and maybe they don’t want to see.

Our heads are bowed on the screen for such a long period that it almost hurts to look up, and that is why we prefer to stay in that position and not look at the giant hands that loom over it. They control threads that are attached to our hands and feet. This is how capitalism has always ruled society; this is how the masses are controlled by a very few. The ones who stay outside the circle, the hands that loom over the bowed heads.

Maybe it's not their problem at all, maybe we have given them this opportunity, because the majority of the population is unprivileged. These things came to my mind while waiting for multiple lines in the hospital, and I just decided to share them here. Let me know what your perception of this topic is, I would love to learn more external views from different perspectives. This will help me to arrange my thoughts better and maybe come up with new ideas.