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by throwaway519 393 days ago
'Day' as a subscription service.

If you don't pay, you will not get the new day.

It'll be crept in through a Total Recall style augmented sleep where a week long holiday seems teally only takes a night's sleep.

When normalised, leisure time will becme a subscription service.

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This was the plot of the Justin Timberlake film In Time.

Everybody stops aging and time becomes a currency. Run out of it and you die.

Rich people drive at walking speed for safety because they can still die in car crashes.