Time-based pay, whether it's a lawyer's six-minute billing unit or a salaried employee's fixed 9-to-5, was never designed to measure the value of what someone produces. It was designed to make cost and effort visible to an employer or client, at a moment when there was no better proxy available. That proxy has always disadvantaged anyone without unlimited discretionary time, most consistently women carrying a disproportionate share of unpaid care. Is it time to rethink - or p