The idea of time being money could only originate in primitively thinking capitalist mind overwhelmed by fanatic passion for limitless consumption. The trite maxim has ever since been as widely and wildly popular, as it is silly sub specie aeternitatis.
Time isn’t money. It simply can’t be, because time is wise – it educates people more often than not – and money, however cunning it might prove to be, is, nevertheless, absolutely stupid, because it serves indiscriminately wise men and fools, honest people and crooks, decent women and whores. It has no dignity, no common sense, no scruple. It can be accumulated en mass and kept in some dirty corner for centuries on end, or be spent within a minute while being played for in a silly game.
Money is human. Time worked billions of years to form human beings out of infusoria of the sea, and money wasn’t always there to witness the dramatic progress. Money was produced by the human society, and even that only in later stages of its evolution. Money is equivalent of human weakness, greed, meanness, cruelty and a great lot of other vices.
Time is not money, so don’t offend its noble value comparing it to cheapness of millions of vulgar dollars, pounds, euros, yens, roubles or whatever other currency it (money) may be represented by.