The most dangerous illusion of modern life is that you pay for things with currency.

You don’t. Money is just a middleman. You pay for everything with your existence.

Henry David Thoreau realized this in 1854: “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

The Real Exchange Rate

If you earn $20 an hour, and you want to buy a new phone for $1,000, the price isn’t $1,000. The price is 50 hours of your life.

That is 50 hours of sitting in a chair you hate. 50 hours of commuting. 50 hours of missing your children’s bedtime. That phone literally costs you a week of your limited existence.

The Tkr. Price Tool

We built the Price of Life Calculator to destroy the illusion of “affordability.” Just because you have the money in your bank account doesn’t mean you can afford the time it took to earn it.

Before you make any purchase over $50, run it through the Protocol:

• Input 1: The Price Tag.
• Input 2: Your Hourly Wage.
• Result: The “Life Cost.”

It generates a Time Receipt. A physical visualization of the trade you are about to make.

Is It Worth It?

Sometimes, the answer is yes. A good mattress might cost 40 hours of life, but it improves the other 200,000 hours you will spend sleeping. That is a good trade.

But that designer jacket? That Uber Eats order when you have food in the fridge? The receipt will tell you the truth: You are trading your freedom for dopamine.

Stop spending your life. Start investing it.