Time is wealth
What use is money when you are dead?
If you knew that you were going to die at 17h00 today, you probably wouldn't bother to go to work; or care too much about making money at all for that matter.
What use is money when you are dead?
Money's real value lies in the future; money and time are intimately linked through the mechanism of interest rates.
Put money in a bank today and that money attracts interest and exponentially grows in value over time.
The human desire to grow wealth is based on a primal urge to secure our long-term future survival, without a future money is largely meaningless.
Money is transactional in the present, but becomes wealth over the long-term.
Now is money, time is wealth.