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> If the argument is "bored rich folks like to play-act working in their free time", that's a very different argument than "poor people have more free time" I'
by azan_ 7mo ago
> If the argument is "bored rich folks like to play-act working in their free time", that's a very different argument than "poor people have more free time"
I'm sorry but are you seriously considering "bored rich folks like to play-act working in their free time" to be real and widespread - among rich - phenomenon?
- swiftcoder 7mo agoHaving worked in a couple of FAANGs, for/alongside a whole raft of IPO-winning folks who had no real need to ever work again, my experience is that it absolutely is a widespread phenomenon (though I'm sure they view it more as "finding meaning through work" than "play-acting")
- azan_ 7mo agoHow can you think it's widespread when you restrict your analysis to top 0.1% outliers?
- swiftcoder 7mo agoBecause the rich are by definition a tiny group of outliers? Pretty much every FAANG engineer is in the top 5% of US by net worth. The ones who got lucky on an IPO are top 2% at worst, often top 1%.
- azan_ 7mo ago> Because the rich are by definition a tiny group of outliers? Not in the context of this discussion. Here both rich and poor have to be group large enough to actually introduce significant bias to the sauna study. Top 1% is unlikely to do that.