[please forgive my poor English]
Interesting thoughts. Thanks.
0.
Time is pricelessly finite.
Universal thruth.
The clock is ticking for all of us. I am no longer a grand child since my last grand mother died a few weeks ago. We probably all are 'old' enough to realize that it will be, well, rather short... A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is
‘I wish I hadn’t worked so hard’ (
The Guardian).
1.
It is a bad exchange to trade time for money.
Indeed. But younger people, if they have no money, have no choice either, so they have to trade what is most precious (time) for what is most valuable for them (money). And they have time ahead (so much time, they think, that T.S. Elliott's sentence seems true to them: "life is long."...). Today, things are changing though amongst young people. It is a good thing.
2.[
superfluous]
money has no value, except to the extent that it facilitates your ability to improve the lives of your family, friends and community [and buying good hifi gear, because life is too short for bad audio].
A study has shown that, beyond approx. $75.000/year of income, which covers the basic needs and some/many superfluous ones, people were actually not happier (depends of the cost of life in the country of course).
Regarding point 0., when we, as music lovers, sit and listen (preferably, full-mindnessly), we chose to devoid our priceless time to what we consider as one the most valuable activity in life (besides love, family and friends).
(While I was writing this, the cat innocently stomped on the keyboard and discovered a keyboard shortcut that was unknown to me: the
automatically-close-one-tab-after-another shortcut (stupid me, I used to do it
manually, with Ctrl+W; the cat is smarter). Very efficient, to say the least. But -hey-, I know the Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut to
restore "incatvertently" closed tabs (thanks to the excelent forum, the content had been saved). I laughed a lot, she meowed. We shared a happy moment in the day. Priceless.)