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by 000ooo000 874 days ago
>Close. We pay money to use other people's times _and_ resources (capital) and outputs (widgets)

If these other things still require time as an input to create them, isn't it still just time at the end of the day?

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With a really indirect definition, yes! But then, the cost per unit sold for the latest Taylor Swift album through Apple Music is basically free, so much so that the marginal amount of time to produce and sell it is extremely negligible.