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Whilst an average film overall, the movie 'In Time' has an interesting concept for currency set in a near future sci fi dystopia.
Humanity has cured aging, and everyone stops aging at 25. Then their clock starts; indicated by a tattoo like digital clock on their forearm. Everything is paid for with time taken off their clock, once it reaches 0, they immediately die. Jobs pay employees a time salary etc, and the rich horde and manipulate the time markets to concentrate their wealth, and keep the poor from achieving the immortality they horde.
I enjoyed it, and I'm sure plenty others did, but there's no denying that a rather large suspension of belief is required.
We're literally living that life and we've always lived it since the dawn of currency, fiat.
How long you're going to survive after you reach zero wealth left to your own devices, homeless on the streets? Until the first rough winter?
Depends on how resourceful you are. You don't automatically die once you run out of money. Also, no amount of money grants immortality.