There are a fixed number of hours and they cannot be stored. Almost every convenience business is a time trade: delivery, childcare, cleaning, automation. Time scarcity is felt hardest where two obligations overlap — a parent who must both earn and supervise, a fifty-year-old with children above and parents below.
34 frictions in this map are rooted here.
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Infancy
Childhood
- School ends hours before work does
- Feed a child who eats constantly and refuses most of it
- Children catch everything and cannot stay home alone
- The family must sometimes eat without cooking
- The child must play, and cannot be left to do it alone
- Practices, games, and gear consume the family calendar and budget