Time obsessed? You are right . Scarcity of time is the real equalizer, but you are sliding dangerously close to the "optimize everything" pitfall. We have all been conditioned to think that any minute that is not spent in some sort of productive activity is essentially stealing out of your own future. But this obsessive need to squeeze every moment of time in fact reduces life to a spreadsheet for value extraction. Why do we assume improving status is the ultimate ROI for a lived hour? When did lazy get to be immoral?

What is improvement anyway? What version of me is better, the one where I learned a new skill in an hour or the one where I decompressed in the hour? Of course, theoretically, the more you put in, the more you get out, the classic economic trade. But in real, human time, we have to price in things like burnout, boredom, and existential malaise. And why is time only valuable if it pays in money, muscle, or mental upgrades? The only truly scarce thing about time is its unpredictability. You could grind ten years and still lose due to luck, genetics or algorithms being on the other side