Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
by yummyfajitas on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @10:08AM
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Not to mention all the Americans who choose to consume at American levels (considerably higher than European levels), rather than saving.
As for people at the bottom, they typically do choose free time over money. About 90% of those classified by the government as poor choose not to work full time, for example.
Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
by jon-wood on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @11:18AM
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They choose not to, or there's no full time work for them to take so they work part time instead?
It may be that they make the choice (I admit to not having read the paper), but lets not jump to that assumption just because they're not in full time work.
Re:Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
by yummyfajitas on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @12:49PM
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They choose not to, or there's no full time work for them to take so they work part time instead?
The answer is in the report I linked to, which measures involuntary part time employment in addition to labor force participation.
Uh, who's "we"? You mean the 60% of Americans with more than $500 in savings? Are those the people who can "just" pay for it out of savings?