TIME AND MONEY

TIME MORE VALUABLE THAN MONEY Time is more valuable than money. How you spend your time matters more to you, than how you spend your money, therefore. Boycotting abuses, misuses of your time, while putting your time to better uses for yourself , is a more effective form of real protest than just boycotting dumb expenditures of your money. We lawyers err when we say "Time is money;" for, in fact, time is far more valuable than any amount of money. Run out of money, you can get more. Run out of time: death. Advertisers seem to be always angling for your money. But they really want your time. They spend billions in the attempt to attract briefly your attention on television, in publishing, on billboards, radio, internet, in church, at the movies; wherever you are, they are angling for your time, under a money guise. If they can get your time, they can get your money. So keep your time, and you will keep your money also. Slaves had no money. Their value was in the free use of their time to benefit, to enrich, the slave owners. Similarly, prisoners have no money. Their value is the social deprivation of the use of their time for the gain of others. The prison population that has exploded since the 1960s' social, political, civil rights battles, is an example. "Political prisoners" are disabled veterans or votaries of such social battles without power. In another context, misdirecting the values of credulous vulnerable men, women, children, who are purposely made to believe falsely that their money matters more than their time, are also thereby made to misbehave: thuggishly, roguishly, criminally, in pursuit of this fabled, mythical moneyed fantasy; material lie, hubristic hypocrisy, delusional apparition, that leads to nothing, but a further waste of time in jail; to utter destruction of families' hopes. But in jail there is an abundance of time to do something constructive, something redeeming, something of value with your time for yourself, for your family, community, legacy. The once-lost lives of Malcolm X, Claude Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, more, who received instruction, inspiration, redemption, in prison, again demonstrates the plain value of time over money. One needs money to make money. One needs but time to make good use of time. Time is more valuable than money.