Is dealing only with the new photons from the sun arriving everyday.
Not the photons of ancient millions of years stored to petroleum oil energy that drive contemporary economy. It seems everyone is looking for a slice of that ancient treasure energy. Of that ancient photon produced pie.
(Some notes added later on:
When we say time is money perhaps all we mean is that money is energy. The simple physics relation Energy= Power x Time perhaps explains everything. Assuming constant power the more the time the more the energy. And this is perhaps what a bank sells. It sells time therefore energy. And perhaps all the story of interest rate comes from the exploitation and forecasting thinking of old non renewable energy stored over millions of years.
A fresh photon could be the currency of the future.)
But the real treasure is the few billion billion photons falling today on each one of us, every second. We can be happy just be letting the sun see our bodies a little.
References:
Proffesor Bartlett Lecture on YouTube, video title: The most important video you will ever see
The inability of the human race to understand the exponential function - Bartlett
Conceptual Physics - appendix on Bartlett and the exponential function - Hewitt
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