How much $ would you sell your day for? Or an even better question: Does time = money

What a great anniversary for the #weekend-engagement community 🎉

300 weeks of non stop coming up with great topics @galenkp and many more great posts and comments to come 👏

And of this jubilee, three hundredth edition, really great topics!

I liked a few of them, so I started listing them, but I realized that writing on some of the topics would be too extensive, too emotional or it would seem like I was writing eulogies about myself, so I decided to touch on the topic of money, in a topic that so cruelly depicts the lives of people on the planet...

Would you spend 300 days in solitary confinement with no light and only one meal a day to receive $10,000 of your own country's currency at the end of it? Explain either way, yes or no.

NO

It is clear that all of us on this planet are ready to sell our time, to risk our health and our lives for money, but the only question is "For how much $?".

For much of my life, I viewed people as better than me (not in the sense of better as a person, but better materially) and I wanted to have more.
In order to secure this for myself, I studied hard, worked and acquired...
But very early on I heard stories about the lives of people outside my environment and found out how those who are "behind me" live, who even though they work all their lives maybe even more than me, who maybe even have a higher education, but barely make ends meet...

I was very touched by the story of my colleagues who were working in Angola. Namely, they bought bread there (one that the local population had never tried), which they paid $50 for and had it in one day. While local residents buy a full bag of flour for $50, from which they make bread for the whole family for a month.

For the same dollar, someone works all day, and someone does not think to bend down to take it when they see it on the street.

Then I understood.
The value of money is not determined by the number written on the banknote, but by the geographical location of the person who has that banknote in his pocket.

When you look at the statistics at the world level, that about 44% of the world's inhabitants (not to say half), live on less than $7 a day, it is clear how inaccurate the concept of value is.
Even when time is mentioned, the most valuable resource we possess, we can ask ourselves how the time that he sells for $ can be worth a hundred and a thousand times less to someone, just because you were born and live on the other side of the planet?

And we are all ready to sell our days and we do it consciously.
Just a question of how much...
That is, the question of how hard it is to get to that $ where we earn and spend it.

I sell probably a third of every day of my life, doing a job that doesn't pay badly (for the location where I live). That sold time provides me with comfort and that the rest of the time I don't spend at work I don't have to think about how I will survive.

For $33.3 in my city, I can treat myself and my partner to a more modest restaurant, for lunch without drinks, or take her to the cinema, for popcorn and ice cream, or for cakes and juice at a better pastry shop.

From that perspective, I certainly wouldn't accept an offer to take 10,000$ for being locked in solitary confinement for 300 days with one meal a day and no daylight.

I wouldn't accept it because I respect the law and I'm not a thief and a murderer (someone gets those 300 days, but also much more because of the crimes he committed, but let's not mention such inhumans here among the honest world 🙂).

One of us, here at Hive, who spends his life in another country in the world, and for whom $10 a day is enough to feed his family, would probably think carefully about that offer of $10,000?

There have been many stories here on Hive, about users who immediately withdraw all the rewards they receive, no matter how small, every $.
Someone for whom $33.3 a day is a trifle will certainly not do it, while someone who needs $3 to survive the day will not think for more than a few seconds.

And the conclusion?
Maybe the topic should have been formulated differently?
As: For how much $ would you spend 300 days on one meal a day, locked in solitary confinement with no windows?

The answers to this question would probably show how incorrect the saying that time = money is.
That is, that the time zone and latitude in which we sell that time is very important!

In order for me to agree to such an offer, the amount would have to be much higher.
At least for one more zero...
Because as I wrote, each of us has our own price.
I wonder if a billionaire would answer and what 😀