Kirubakaran Athmanathan
Inequality Of Time
Jan 8, 2008
Bad News: Higher Income = Less Leisure Time? The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss:
… a certain class of pundits and politicians are quick to see any increase in income inequality as a problem that needs fixing—usually through some form of redistributive taxation. Applying the same philosophy to leisure, you could conclude that something must be done to reverse the trends of the past 40 years—say, by rounding up all those folks with extra time on their hands and putting them to (unpaid) work in the kitchens of their “less fortunate” neighbors. If you think it’s OK to redistribute income but repellent to redistribute leisure, you might want to ask yourself what—if anything—is the fundamental difference.Hmmm… Thought provoking…From economist Steven Landsburg
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