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how utterly disconnected from reality you are
by robertfw 5mo ago
how utterly disconnected from reality you are
- azan_ 5mo agoI’m afraid it’s you that’s disconnected from reality. I know it’s unfashionable to actually consider evidence, but please have a look at eg Time and income poverty by Tania Burchardt. Low income people have MUCH more free time.
- ugiox 5mo agoDon’t know. But I am in the top 1% of this country regarding income as an engineer (staff/fellow level). I don’t work more than 32h-35h per week - actually I never have and was never expected to. Living and working in a sane society and country. I fanatically turn off work email or work msgs when not working. I am not available for no one. Not even the C-levels or any clients. I concentrate on me and my family. No need to be a slave to “commitments” that don’t mean a thing in the long run.
- azan_ 5mo agoGood for you!
- ugiox 5mo agoAnd everyone has the same 24h. And it is just their choice and will to either dedicate 30min to their well being or not. It is not about having less time. Just prioritizing the same 24h that everyone has differently. Everything else is just finding excuses which of course is much easier than changing your life.
- hackable_sand 5mo agoBut they don't
- azan_ 5mo agoThey do - https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport57.pdf https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/CASEreport57.pdf
- rexpop 5mo agoYou are correct. OP is ridiculously short on both common sense and a healthy sense of perspective. The fact is, simply, that while the poor actually work more hours, they're just not compensated commensurate with their labors.
- azan_ 5mo agoThat's not what evidence shows. Surely you must realise that actual evidence is worth more than "common sense" and "healthy sense of perspective"? You just made up some assumption with nothing to back it up.
- rexpop 5mo agoI've seen the evidence, and it's obvious that low-SES work is under-compensated and ill-classified. I didn't make anything up, I looked at you sources and then I did more reading. And you can, too.
- azan_ 5mo agoI did, and I found out for example that TV consumption is much higher in low income deciles compared with high income deciles. The claim that they do not have free 30 minutes a day is impossible to defend. Also under-compensation is completely tangent to this discussion, I don't know why would you bring it up. Do you think I'm talking that it's great to be poor? Because I'm not saying that.