Have been thinking, if personal time could be traded, how would that be? I am sure there will be a market, time such as wealth, most people want to have more, even though they might have no idea how or what to spend it efficiently. There will be a market for time trading definitely, if it could be traded.
If personal time could be sold, sellers could remove portion of their time in lives and buyers will gain and inject more time into their personal lives. Here is the catch though, the content of the time will be traded along as a package and receivers will need to accept what is inside the time unit as traded. The content will be solely the main motivation for sellers to let go some precious time of theirs, perhaps a part of their sorrow moments, perhaps a heart broken separation memory with their loved ones, perhaps a regretful experience, sellers motivation is to let go of these grieving time. If there is a market, perhaps there will be people willing to sell time of happiness to exchange for money. Just like people trading organs in black market, perhaps there will be demand to buy time of happiness. Since demand for time of sadness is anticipated less valuable compare to time of happiness, time of sadness will be rated as grade C and time of happiness will be rated as grade A and grade A will be multiple times more costly than grade C.
If personal time could be traded, people that have no “sufficient time” could purchase some additional time, or people who are wealthy but sad and bored could purchase some “happiness time” and people who is terribly heartbroken could sell their time away. It is a perfect market, however, the complication really arise if it is refundable or if customers satisfaction will be ever honored? Though, the upside of these trades are, how receivers choose to deal with these emotions contented in time really depend variably, they could choose to enjoy the time contents or they could choose to ignore the contents and use the time to do something which they are lack of time for.
It is also more complex, if one’s memory would notice there is an eclipse of the time events missing in their time series of lives? Would it trigger any moral obligation or personal responsibility if a time of crime is sold? Would it elongate the buyer’s life if time is bought and shorten the seller’s life after it is sold? Yet with all these complication, I think there will be a market, and it will be a well speculated one, if time could be traded as it satisfies human’s very basic nature: greed and contentment of lives.
