This reflection explores the real cost of time, long before money enters the picture.It shows how every hour we trade shapes our future,how the system teaches us to measure progress in dollars instead of moments,and how awareness reveals the rate of return we accept on our own life.

For the working class, the essay reconnects money to its true meaning:stored labor, borrowed time, and hours that never return.

It reminds us that freedom is not found in income,but in how much of our time still belongs to us.

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