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by rexpop 70 days ago
You are correct. OP is ridiculously short on both common sense and a healthy sense of perspective. The fact is, simply, that while the poor actually work more hours, they're just not compensated commensurate with their labors.
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That's not what evidence shows. Surely you must realise that actual evidence is worth more than "common sense" and "healthy sense of perspective"? You just made up some assumption with nothing to back it up.
I've seen the evidence, and it's obvious that low-SES work is under-compensated and ill-classified.

I didn't make anything up, I looked at you sources and then I did more reading.

And you can, too.

I did, and I found out for example that TV consumption is much higher in low income deciles compared with high income deciles. The claim that they do not have free 30 minutes a day is impossible to defend. Also under-compensation is completely tangent to this discussion, I don't know why would you bring it up. Do you think I'm talking that it's great to be poor? Because I'm not saying that.
> they do not have free 30 minutes a day

I'm not making that claim, but keep on tilting at windmills if you like.

Well, that's what entire discussion is about.
The entire discussion is about a single half-hour interval!?