[[Chandra stands in front of various images showing time/currency/current]]
Chandra: Today, let's discuss the Homin notion of equity. They profoundly believed that all goods and services should be exchanged for things of similar value. They were extremely precise in how they tracked these exchanges.
[[Chandra faces a dwindling lecture audience]]
Chandra: To this end, their concept called "[English]cash" or "[English]currency," which was a unit to measure effort-time; this is reflected in the similarity to the word "[English]current," which, among other things, means "the most recent" and "flow" - time "flows" like a river, as in "[English]cash flow."
[[Juni looks irritated, leaning against its hand]]
Chandra: "[English]Time is money" - that is, time is exchangable for a unit of goods and services. In an abstract sense, they were masters of time itself, via the "[English]time card."
Because it's more fun this way and telling the masses 'that you have little to no idea what these words mean and that some sound alike and may or may not be derived from each other or not' would be of little benifit and is confusing to the layperson (probably more so when I type it).
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It was also funnier before I found out that the term "currency" actually is derived from "current."
Because it's more fun this way and telling the masses 'that you have little to no idea what these words mean and that some sound alike and may or may not be derived from each other or not' would be of little benifit and is confusing to the layperson (probably more so when I type it).