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Hard working = spends many hours engaged in work for pay. By "life of leisure", I mean a life in which one does not need to work at all in order to have the ne
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
Hard working = spends many hours engaged in work for pay.
By "life of leisure", I mean a life in which one does not need to work at all in order to have the necessities of life provided. This is the traditional definition of the phrase, no?
- analog31 11y agoNo. I don't think a person who is living at a bare subsistence level would be said to be living a life of leisure. Also, a person could have a seemingly easy job that pays a lot, or a hard job that pays little. In my view your distinctions are wrung to fit the point you're trying to make.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoYou seem to have confused the US with India. Basically no one in the US is living at a "bare subsistence level". People with $0 in market income still consume approx $20k/year in the US, which is more than 3x the mean income (after adjusting for cost of living) over here. If $20k is "bare subsistence" then I should be surrounded by at least 500M corpses.