History WMG / InTime

* Nothing to do with each other. Jossed.

[[WMG: The people of this [[TheVerse 'verse]] are [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined humanoid Cylons]]]]

Proletarians hate money. They believe the only material possession should be manual labour, anyone who has money or focuses on material possessions is classified as a ''Class Traitor''. Therefore In Time is set in a universe where only humans work and few robots. The minutes are how many minutes they worked for. And also classifies Hours and Days and Years. The death clock being an incentive to work for. As in, ''if you don't work you will die''. Will and Sylvia are therefore ''Class Traitors'' because they robbed Sylvia's father's time banks.

[[WMG:The In Time economy is a Proletariat system]]
Proletariats hate money. They believe the only material possession should be manual labour, anyone who has money or focuses on material possessions is classified as a ''Class Traitor''. Therefore In Time is set in a universe where only humans work and few robots. The minutes are how many minutes they worked for. And also classifies Hours and Days and Years. The death clock being an incentive to work for. As in, ''if you don't work you will die''. Will and Sylvia are therefore ''Class Traitors'' because they robbed Sylvia's father's time banks.

Proletariats hate money. They believe the only material possession should be manual labour, anyone who has money or focuses on material possessions is classified as a ''Class Traitor''. Therefore In Time is set in a universe where only humans work and few robots. The minutes are how many minutes they worked for. And also classifies Hours and Days and Years. The death clock being an incentive to work for. As in, ''If you don't work you will die''. Will and Sylvia are therefore ''Class Traitors'' because they robbed Sylvia's father's time banks.

[[WMG: The Time economy is nothing more than a vast schem to KillThePoor]]

Considering the current technology level. I'm thinking that at some point in an alternate history, aliens came down (for whatever reason) and infected everyone with this condition. Society adapted around this and even found a way to artificially transfer time between devices. Maybe it just works like bitcoin, and people found a way to "mine" for more time? It is also possible that there is a class lower than those seen in the movie. This class is simply slaves which are bread and raised in cages, producing children as young as possible. When they hit 25, all their time is siphoned off and they are killed.

Thing is, if time equals money, how do you opt out of the system without starving or being arrested for tax-dodging? And what if the system (as seems to be implied by the Time Zones?) is ingrained by law? Maybe they (the purported sect) could treat the timers as the Mark of the Beast- which according to the book of Revelation, "no-one can buy or sell without it"- and live right on the very edges of society?

** Unless the level of economic transformation isn't uniform, which it undoubtedly isn't, despite each country pledging to it [[hottip:*:the entire human society within the infrastructure needed to support the system? Entire towns in every continent except Antarctica have irregular or even no electricity, which is much simpler as well as being a prerequisite]]. The nations with zones could easily represent a unified economic bloc, and they still need things that aren't necessarily manufactured in their own zones (from cars to concrete). Each collection of zones being its own industrial fiefdom is a lot less likely, so the less developed time economies or anyone else makes up the difference through trade. The local economies are the domain of either the government, or corporations like Weis, who control the amount of currency in large part, or entirely--either group might not care how many people die in the lowest ghetto as the economy periodically shuffles people down zones. Though whether formal government (with no uniformed police or symbols of authority) or a cabal of Weis-like corporations runs things probably doesn't matter to the man at the bottom, one is still a capitalist economy.

[[WMG: The people of this [[TheVerse 'verse]] are [[BattlestarGalactica humanoid Cylons]]]]

* Plausible- he did spend a whole year on booze, and even with the standard, "buy everyone in the bar a round," that's still a lot of time. 8736 hours will buy a lot of booze.

"Turning off the aging gene" is shorthand for a set of drug implants and metabolic overrides that not only prevent aging, but prevent disease and ''heal the subject of anything less than an instantly-fatal injury.'' Will and Sylvia ''crash a sports car' and are ''running'' just ''minutes'' afterwards(though that means Borel chugged several ''dozen'' '''gallons''' of high-proof booze to overtax his implants).