The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Should you favor time or money?

Time and money, the sources of endless hand-wringing in modern society.

No one ever seems to have enough, including the people we think probably do.

Instead of struggling with primeval conditions of scarcity, many of us are encumbered with the so-called

first-world problems of modern day. For most of us,

there's a wide range of choices and flexibility that Grock never had. That said, when we bring a

primal perspective to the four, just what is a healthy, productive relationship to time and money.

And how much of each do we need to be happy? The fact is,

our primal ancestors operated with a very different economy than the capitalist system many of us

live and work within today. Social and cultural organization in Grok's Day, while far from

brutish, was still unsophisticated, with none of the luxuries or stressors that

accompany advanced economic structures. Grogh and his kin certainly still needed and wanted things.

It shouldn't be much of a surprise that even our primal ancestors were attracted to form as well as function.

Evidence of shells and beads used for fashion date back to over 80,000 years ago.

But no doubts about it, our primal ancestors lived in a world of relative material scarcity when compared

to ours today. Their innate interest for the new and shiny, an adaptive characteristic that

encouraged creativity and favored innovation, was naturally

capped by the dearth of resources, or the work it took to produce items from their raw forms.

As a result, Grock and his people had all the instinct for invention and collection of things,

but with a limited variety and quantity of actual possessions.

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