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Re:Member of The European Union by xg15 on Monday June 20, 2016 @12:20PM (#11939023)
So only poor people should work excessively long ours, then.
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Re:Member of The European Union by cloakandswagger on Monday June 20, 2016 @12:40PM (#11939173)
Hey look, another strawman!
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Re:Member of The European Union by xg15 on Monday June 20, 2016 @03:45PM (#11940802)
As this is in fact a consequence of the proposition if you also consider market pressure and power imbalance between employee and employer, I don't think it's a strawman. But of course there can be other, more positive consequences too.
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Re:Member of The European Union by harryh on Monday June 20, 2016 @03:57PM (#11940945)
Why High Earners Work Longer Hours

"Between 1979 and 2002, the frequency of long work hours increased by 14.4 percentage points among the top quintile of wage earners, but fell by 6.7 percentage points in the lowest quintile."

http://www.nber.org/digest/jul06/w11895.html

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