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[–] ccunning 24 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Money is waffles so by the transitive property time is waffles too!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Money can be exchanged for goods and services!

[–] son_named_bort 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

$20? But I wanted a peanut.

[–] jordanlund 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] hakunawazo 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You mean you get peanuts if your customer's peen nuts?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anyone can make money, but noo one can pee nuts!

[–] hakunawazo 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe someone with kidney stones?

[–] popekingjoe 3 points 7 months ago

And $20 can buy a lotta peanuts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

“It’s just a waffle house jukebox, my brains are spinning around…”

Not a child of the south, but money does translate to waffles, so time must as well.

Or something like that.

[–] owenfromcanada 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let's go!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Me after eating 20 pizzas:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Oh, April, I wish you weren't right, but you are. You have turned into a very beautiful, wise, and fertile government employee.

[–] RidcullyTheBrown 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

let me put it this way: if you have money, time can be whatever you want it to be

[–] Carrolade 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

A private mercenary army I can use to conquer my own kingdom.

[–] owenfromcanada 2 points 7 months ago

And establish the eternal dynasty of the waffle.

[–] hakunawazo 2 points 7 months ago

...or buying a social media company and making ALL the shitposts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Serious question? The principle is called "opportunity cost". Chilling out and touching grass is free - but you could also have spent that time working, producing stuff, learning or whatever. You have "lost out" on a potential benefit due to exactly how that time was spent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because you could use your time to work and make money. Labor is kind of selling your time to other entities and doing their stuff. And even an enterpreneur can use time to grow their business. Or capital alone regularly grows with interest or by investing it.

You could also use your time to make waffles. That'd be oddly specific, but even then you could sell those and you'd end up with money again... And exposing waffles to time just results in them growing mold.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Time can be used to purchase goods and services.

[–] hakunawazo 1 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

By offering your time to help make goods and provide services for a business in exchange for money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Because capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Because waffles aren't making you any money. They're only making you full.