Two of the main resources people have are time and money. The world offers many opportunities to trade one for the other, at widely varying rates.
I've often heard people recommend trading money for time in the abstract, but this advice is rarely accompanied by specific recommendations on how to do so.
How do you use money to buy time or otherwise make your life better/easier?
See also the flip-side of this post, "what are you surprised people pay for instead of doing themselves?"
I did, yeah. Isn't that what you do when you don't understand someone's decision? What does that have to do with a behavior being surprising?
Imagine you were getting to know someone. Then they reveal that they are devout followers of Scientology. You are surprised. You ask what's up. They give an explanation roughly on par with the stuff you wrote above. Are you surprised the next time you meet a person who turns out to be a Scientologist?
Yes, because it is weird. Things can be shocking and also explainable.
And their reply was....?