When you purchase an item, you're not just spending money—you're spending the time you invested in earning that money. If a person must work constantly just to pay bills and loans, they're essentially trading time for survival, not for true freedom. From this perspective, what you're consuming isn't money, but time from your life. When you think about it this way, every purchase becomes a question: How much of my labor time must I give up to buy it? And is this item truly worth exchanging this portion of my life for?