So Anyone Can Steal Your Time?

With how things work, it would have been interesting if they introduced the concept that after you kill someone (ex: gunshot or push them off a cliff), then their time would be transferred to you. So if someone had fifteen years, their time would go to you basically. It would have made things much darker if it brought us into a world where the crime rate is through the roof because time is limited and people are going to extreme lengths to get it.

Another possibility that could have made things fascinating is if, this rule exists in this universe, is that a group of hitmen offer their services for those in need exchange for a cut of the profit. Prices would range from person to person; with those who are lower class and considered "less desirable" would cost anything from six months to two years, and those who are upper class or have a *beep* ton of time (like celebrities, politicians, and government officials) could run up to over ten years of your own. [ex: Someone has twenty years left; you get eleven and they get nine -- Someone has 200 years left; you get 115 and they get 85]

Then again, I'm not sure how we'd have time for romance if there was murder and mayhem in the streets at almost any given time.


Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing. -- Orson Welles

it could happen but I doubt it would be common occurrence, many of the residents living in the wealthy area of Greenwich all seem to be rich in their own right, I doubt they would resort to stealing from someone else, and the more richer people would probably have tight security following them around. If a rich person were to take another rich person's time, the most likely way they would do that is probably through legitimate gambling at the casino or something, such as in the scene when we saw Will Salas gambling with his time during a poker match with Sylvia's father at the casino...I don't think the rich would resort to petty theft.

But the ghettos is the place that's much more dangerous and where the poor barely have enough time to live day by day, that's where most of the desperate and some downright greedy people live and where petty theft happens practically everyday, especially with Fortis' barbaric gang of thieves constantly roaming around the area and stealing as much time as they can get their hands on.