That is a valid point. Oil has worth now but we will run out of it someday.
I assumed that was part of the whole system, that if you can give certain people a million years, you have the capability of actually manufacturing time.
What they're actually manufacturing is some method of dramatically slowing down the aging process. And then they add a "switch" that not only turns off this slowing process, but immediately kills the person, but that's an entirely separate element from the aging-process slowdown. Without it, nobody would die when their time ran out, they'd just start aging normally.
You could be "generous" and give immortality to everyone, but that would just cause massive overpopulation and destroy the planet, so everyone would be worse off. The way the system was set up, only a few people would be immortal and the rest would be enslaved by the time bomb implanted in their arms at birth.
In theory, even the proles might be better off, living to be 100 but spending all that time looking 25. However, they're obviously not better off if they are being run ragged all that time trying to survive. So the whole thing is a commentary on how people enslave themselves by running up their Visa cards buying crap they don't need, or something along those lines.
At some point, even the proles must have agreed to exchange their natural freedom for a shot at eternal youth, which means that these people don't deserve a happy ending. They deserve the hell they made for themselves by not being happy with living the lives nature intended for them.
And of course there must be people who never made this trade-off and are off there living who knows where. There are people who think barcodes are the Mark of the Beast. They're not going to let anyone implant something funky in their arms!
As for where the "time" comes from, the same question can be asked of where "money" comes from. The government prints it. Sure there are raw materials that are pulled out of the ground and solar energy that is captured, and technology and labor that adds value to these items, but the money supply is expanded to allow for buying and selling and investing in these continually growing items. The real question is how this time gets divided and ultimately how can the "In Time" society justify allowing people to die when others have more time than they could ever spend/live.
And that is the point of the movie. By showing more directly (than the simple saying does) how time is money, it attempts to ask how can our current society allow people to run out of money/get sick/be homeless/etc. when others have so much more.
It may not have been the best movie ever or the most thorough exploration of a "what if" concept, but I think it does generate lots of good questions, and should encourage reconsideration of the real world, at least a little.
At the end of the movie, ironically, I think that provided there is not excessive government control/intervention in pricing, market forces would eventually fix the problem of this Robin Hood activity. If everyone has at least a million years to spend, sandwiches, cars, vacation homes, and travel to other sectors, would all increase in price significantly. Then it would only be the billionaires that could travel between zones, etc. -> problem reasserts itself.
And that is the point of the movie. By showing more directly (than the simple saying does) how time is money, it attempts to ask how can our current society allow people to run out of money/get sick/be homeless/etc. when others have so much more.
It may not have been the best movie ever or the most thorough exploration of a "what if" concept, but I think it does generate lots of good questions, and should encourage reconsideration of the real world, at least a little.
At the end of the movie, ironically, I think that provided there is not excessive government control/intervention in pricing, market forces would eventually fix the problem of this Robin Hood activity. If everyone has at least a million years to spend, sandwiches, cars, vacation homes, and travel to other sectors, would all increase in price significantly. Then it would only be the billionaires that could travel between zones, etc. -> problem reasserts itself.
No, that's not how our system of money works. Both your country and mine operate a fiat money system. Money supply is partially controlled by central banks (for your country, the Federal Reserve). It's also modified by a number of other mechanisms, very few of which have to do with production in the sense you're describing, although fractional reserve banking abstractly performs an analogous function (except it produces money, not things).
Ha! I just caught that, too. It really was a sexisEXPLOSIONS!
I'm assuming that the natural state of this planet is deadly (dead coming from the word deos which means god which means go do) and that purchased time enables you to survive. I wonder if part of the population or America itself is living on borrowed time and has a time debt? or if the immortals are really in fact dead but don't know it.
Some other interesting words - evil comes from eve. She + it = It + she = itch.
Adam = a damn = da man = demension = demon etc., etc.
Some other interesting words - evil comes from eve. She + it = It + she = itch.
Adam = a damn = da man = demension = demon etc., etc.