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Time millionaires

Unlike money, you can't earn time or make more of it. It's a finite thing.

07 July 2023

Bronwyn Williams

“But time is life, and life exists in our hearts, and the more of it that the people saved, the less they actually had.” ~ Michael Ende, Momo 

I have written in the past about the "lying down flat” movement, which originated in China and morphed into the TikTok “minimum effort Mondays” trend where young people are opting out of the career and ambition treadmill and choosing instead to do the absolute minimum work to survive in order to maximise their leisure time. They’re aiming, as the writer Nilanjana Roy put it, to be “time millionaires” instead of the monetary kind.

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