I’m a far future dystopia every moment in time has been colonized by some corporation and if you’re awake you owe them time rent. So most people try to sleep during expensive times and work during cheap times to maximize profit. All hope to own a modest hour for retirement.
Time unlike space exists as 7.5 billion private "streams" of experience, right? It only exists when you're awake or dreaming. It doesn't exist subjectively when you're asleep. So you could dodge the 2020 tax by sleeping through it like Rip van Winkle in a chemical coma.
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I get that part. What does it mean for a 2nd party to colonize your personal time stream? Do they turn off your consciousness if you're behind on taxes? Why? How are you going to pay more taxes if you're a vegetable not experiencing time? How is it different from just killing?
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Yes, it's like killing, except as a recurring revenue model.
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There's a joke about "spending a year dead for tax purposes" in hitchhiker's guide that's sort of similar in spirit. To own time is to own the "on" switch for all 7.5b streams. Owning the world as a space is unrelated.
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