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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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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How do I collect revenue from an unconscious person?
This might make more sense if everyone was in a computer with limited resources.
Maybe God comes over the PA to let us know we reached the population threshold and anyone who doesn't worship enough gets put to sleep.
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You don't. You collect money from people who want to be alive enough to pay to be alive. Just like you don't collect rent from people who don't want to live in a house you own.
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So you chip all the babies and if they don't pay up you explode their head or whatever. How is time involved?
Are there any other functions of the time chip? Like, if I colonize time can I do anything other than turn it off for an individual? Can I remodel my time rentals?
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You're going to have to invent a lot more sci-fi tech for that. For example, maybe there's a fancy nootropic that allows time to go more slowly. You'd pay a premium tax for using that.

