Economics and time
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Linear time turns everything into a resource including childhood and sleep
Double-entry bookkeeping taught merchants to think in irreversible sequences
What people are actually buying when they pay to outsource chores
Endless growth is the economic translation of an arrow that never loops
Why do cheap things arrive fast while slow things cost more?
Applying opportunity cost to hours works right up until it doesn't
The rule of 72 estimates doubling time and the Einstein quote about it is invented
One extra percent a year for 40 years doubles the final number
Fashion seasons and fiscal years keep a cyclical rhythm alive inside linear institutions
The 1980 Ehrlich-Simon bet: why exponential forecasts kept losing
The real cost of cheap convenience: what you trade away when you buy time
One percent growth feels like nothing for 30 years and then it does not
Exponential discounting in economics vs the hyperbolic discounting people actually do
Why are fiscal years and quarters allowed to ignore the calendar?
Why buying time feels wasteful even when it clearly is not
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