Check out the work of Carlo Rovelli and start considering time as a human construct. It is not needed to explain the world and physics around us. Isn't framing time as a currency while proposing it as part of the universe just an attempt of fraud? It feels like getting offered shiny glass beads while taking things of real value.
> It feels like getting offered shiny glass beads while taking things of real value
It indeed is if you consider majority of work is not time sensetive even if the person explicitly telling you so, absolutely convinces you that's the case.
This becomes clearer when you move on from an employee to a business owner and the only person you answer to is your customer.
Unless there's a literal environmental disaster, like when my community went up in flames during the California fires - everything else can wait.
Even during the flames burning, houses that were almost on fire were in a waiting line behind houses on fire.
The only reason why "it was due yesterday" works is because the employee believes their value is worth less than what the employer values them at.
