musing on "the time value of money"

I was doing some research today and came across the phraselet

the time value of money

while contemplating that something shifted
mastering money has something to do with ... I don't want to say mastering time but ...

cross that idea with the idea of primary and secondary relationships
where a primary relationship is, say, family -- mother, father, husband, etc
and a secondary relationship is like a co-worker or an acquaintence or a client

the time value of money in the context of secondary relationships is a totally different construct than how any of us grew up with money (primary relationships).

which provides at least two immediate insights:
a). there exists more than one perspective in which to view money -- the one you/me/etc know from birth is not the only one (obvious, perhaps, but hardly trivial)
b). the values associated with primary relationships and the values associated with secondary relationships often seem to get mixed when dealing with money (at least they do for me!) -- in other words, if I approach how much people pay me as a reflection of *my* worth, it's a breeding ground for resentment and discord. If however I see money as a reflection of [what my *time*] does for [other people's time] then -=<*click*>=- suddenly things like investements and interest and all that suddenly appear on the same continum as jobs and the like. And what being wealthy means. It's all a secondary-relationship management protocol... or something like that...