Full Idea
The Westernisation of cultures throughout the world is partly a matter of introducing the time is money metaphor into those cultures.
Gist of Idea
Cultures were partly westernised by the new time-is-money metaphor
Source
G Lakoff / M Johnson (Metaphors We Live By [1980], 21)
A Reaction
Nice thought, though I would guess that the invention of the cheap clock is what initiated this development.
Book Reference
Lakoff,G/Johnson,M: 'Metaphors We Live By' [Chicago 2003], p.145