6.26.25: BorrowTime™

BorrowTime™ lets you rent extra hours from people wasting theirs. Some gamer in Ohio trades three unused Sunday hours for crypto, and you use them to prep for your deadline. Everyone wins—except ethics. Turns out, time’s not neutral. You start dreaming in other people’s thoughts. A chef’s anxiety. A widow’s grief. One guy saw his own death while using twelve borrowed hours in a row. Still, productivity boomed. Nations thrived. And when it all collapsed, no one had time to fix it. Literally. The servers shut down at midnight. Permanently. Funny how quickly eternity gets rationed.