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[John V]

Well it's good to hear you would endorse a single-payer solution. I didn't think you had it in you. Kudos!

I'm just slightly right of middle on most issues. The lefties here just project a far-right bogeyman caricature onto anyone right of HRC.

As to your study, there are a lot of things that Kahneman might not have factored in. I noticed he said "passive" leisure... that may be a key word.

Maybe. Still, other things being equal, paychecks tend to rise with hours worked.

When you work hard every day in a factory or warehouse setting to make a profit for someone else (which I have done), it's a lot different than having business lunches and meetings from dawn to dusk in order to make more money for yourself (which I have also done). People in executive positions are often given better vacation packages so they can go to Italy and Greece for a couple weeks and unwind. People who work "in the trenches" are often disregarded as replaceable, and aren't offered such vacation packages so that they can "recharge their batteries" so to speak.

All I'm saying is, it's not such a simple issue as "wealthier people work harder." They often are treated like more than a machine to their employers. And on a large scale, the difference in treatment begins to show.

Aside from old money, people who are treated as more than a machine by their employers worked hard to get to that point. People treated as replaceable are generally...replaceable.