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Re:Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are? by danjac on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:46AM (#19571559)
> One reason that Europe has very few innovative new companies created in the last 25 years is that everyone is at the coffee shop writing poetry.

> No, not everyone in Europe gets to live white-collar worker dream of writing poetry at the coffee shop and coming in late

Um,so which is it?

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Re:Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are? by roenxi on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:49AM (#19571589)
It can be both. The wealthy and the capable people waste their time in coffee shops instead of working out how to do something useful; poor people and the capability-disadvantaged work in horrible jobs making ends meet.
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Re:Why Don't Americans Understand How Poor Their Lives Are? by microcolonel on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:53AM (#19571631)
I think more precisely it would be "that everyone who can, is at the coffee shop writing poetry, and ironically the people who can afford to do that would otherwise be productive."
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