Re:A New Aristocracy [pdf]
by yummyfajitas on Thursday August 20, 2015 @02:17AM
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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 necessities of life provided. This is the traditional definition of the phrase, no?
No. 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.
Re:A New Aristocracy [pdf]
by yummyfajitas on Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:56AM
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You 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.
It just moves the barrier.
It's the hard working, highly stressed, wealthy people who's children are raised well.... In contrast, the lower income people living a life of leisure are the ones who's children are raised poorly.
To be charitable, I'm betting that "hard working" and "leisure" have special definitions in this context.