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Conversion formula for time into momey


I've tried to work it out just to see if it was consistent but it only seems to work on the lower levels. For example...

A cup of coffee at the food truck was 3 minutes the day before but now costs 4 minutes. So 1 minute = 1 dollar seems reasonable, especially when JT gives the little girl on the street 5 minutes.

Doing the math, this makes an hour worth $60 which begins to stretch things a little and by the time we work out that a day is then worth $1440 we really have to start suspending disbelief, as rent costs half of JTs mom's 3-day budget ($2160) and, wait for it... the Jaguar costs 59 years which works out to 1440 X 364* X 59 = a staggering 30,925,440 dollars! Something is definitely wrong here! Even with terrible inflation and 150 years from now, this is an astronomically unrealistic leap.

Let's say a minute was only worth a quarter instead of a dollar. That makes the Jag about 8 million. A little more palpable but still hard to swallow lol.

Yeah I know. I think about crazy stuff like this way too much lol.

*-364 days per year based on the 52 week counter on their arms dropping to 51:59:59 instead of a full year

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Interesting, good work! I think you put more thought into it then the filmmakers did.

Based on the figure of the car being roughly $8 million, his 'toll' to get into New Greenwich alone would have cost around $136,000 (@ 1 year, i took $8 million divided by 59 years?) for a one way trip.

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Interesting indeed, OP !

To SixRavenX : While I admit that the time/money conversion doesn't really work for some things, I think it is definitely plausible that a one-way trip to New Greenwich would cost $136,000. The "rich" set the price extremely high to prevent anyone from the ghetto from going to New Greenwich.

If the trip "only" cost, say, $200 or even $1000, there would be ways for the "poor" to cross the Time Zone (it would be difficult, but possible). But with a price like $136,000, they made 100% sure no one would ever leave the ghetto.

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"You know, this is - excuse me - a damn fine cup of coffee."

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I don't think you can calculate it like that. Because then that would mean taking the bus costs 120$ ?

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