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Another proposed title: "Why you need to be rich and have a white collar job to have time for leisure activities" Subtext: _less than 1% of rich people are act
by bcx 8y ago
Another proposed title: "Why you need to be rich and have a white collar job to have time for leisure activities"
Subtext: _less than 1% of rich people are active triathletes_
Some of the people with free time and money spend it on endurance activities. Some of them spend it on watching TV.
For tri-athetes:
(back of envelope math, 120K a year is top 5% of income in US - source: http://graphics.wsj.com/what-percent/ http://graphics.wsj.com/what-percent/)
Population of US is around 325 Million. 5% is 16.25 Million.
(Total membership in the USA Triathlon organization: 116K in 2015) https://www.teamusa.org/-/media/USA_Triathlon/PDF/About-Multisport/2015-Membership-Report_lowres.pdf?la=en&hash=1C1F62C80432F8DFA8769CF79D3B664C65C59CE9 https://www.teamusa.org/-/media/USA_Triathlon/PDF/About-Mult...)
116000/16250000 = ~0.7%
Conclusion less than 1% of rich people love triathlons.
- stcredzero 8y agoRich people historically do things to distinguish themselves from people who are not rich. If you ever watch a historical movie, or go to a Scottish festival, you'll sometimes see women wearing these blouses with really long, open, flappy sleeves, where the opening is so big, you could literally fit a watermelon up the sleeve. The purpose? Just to show the owner could afford that much cloth. If a sport can be played by middle class people, rich people will either gravitate to their own subgroups in the sport, or take up a sport that middle class people can't afford. It's just people doing what people do with tribal markers.