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.
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Actually no. If you think about it that’s a different, simpler premise (you stop aging at 25 and have a year to buy more time). My premise is time itself being colonized
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Oh, okay. Then I have no idea what the phrase "time itself has been colonized" means or why being awake would matter.
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How is that different from owning the world and collecting tax during 2020?
What does it mean to own time itself?
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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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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.

