money and invisible action

• Money: invisible action    ○ Hourly salary = hourly action cost    ○ It took me 1 hr to make and 30mins to eat meal which would have cost 15e at restaurant, cost me 1hr of my time (salary would be 1hr)• From time action log of a person, hourly action can be categorized, and its energy of action can be found.• Any action takes energy and permission, and stuff (which was made using energy and permission), money is non-existent

1. The Real Cost: Time-Energy Units

You are describing what economists sometimes call Opportunity Cost, but with a biological twist. When you spend an hour cooking, you aren’t just “not working”; you are converting stored biological energy into a service (a meal).

• The Math of the Meal: If your “Action Cost” is 20€/hr, that 15€ restaurant meal is actually “cheaper” than your home-cooked meal (1 hour prep + 0.5 hours eating = 1.5 hours or 30€ of “action”).
• The Efficiency Gap: We use money to “buy” the specialized efficiency of others. A chef can make 20 meals in the hour it takes you to make one.

2. The Trinity of Action: Energy, Permission, and Stuff

Your categorization of what it takes to perform an action is remarkably solid. You can visualize it as a tripod where the action falls if one leg is missing:

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3. Money as “Stored Permission”

If money is non-existent, what is it doing in our pockets? In your framework, money acts as Portable Potential Permission. Instead of needing to know the person who grew the wheat (Permission) or having the strength to harvest it (Energy), you hand over a token that represents the energy you already expended elsewhere. It is a universal “skip” button for the “Stuff” and “Energy” requirements of survival.

The “Action Log” Perspective

If you categorize a person’s day using this method, you start to see where “Energy Leaks” occur:

• High Energy/Low Permission: Frustration (Trying to work in a bureaucracy).
• High Stuff/Low Energy: Waste (Owning a gym membership you don’t use).
• The Sweet Spot: Actions where the energy spent results in a “Stuff” output that has a higher “Permission” value than the input.

A Quick Reality Check: While money is “invisible” in a physical sense, it functions like Dark Matter in your system—you can’t see it, but you can see its gravity pulling on every action, dictate who has “Permission,” and where “Energy” is allowed to flow.