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December 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
EXACTLY! When I was a student I think I was at the far left of this… now I’m in the middle, trying to get to the right. *sigh* enough break time, back to work…
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Heh… reminds me of Office Space: “Well, you don’t need a million dollars to do nothing, man. Take a look at my cousin: he’s broke, don’t do shit. “
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hehehe…
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:17 pm
when i grow up, i wanna be on the right side of this diagram…
@ JA: great quote! =)
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Great representation! I wonder… if the y-axis was labeled “hard work” or “effort” would it yield an inverse curve to the one given?
December 22nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
CJ Guest, considering how many rich people are born into money without having to work that much at all, and how many people work hard only to end up broke, I think that one might need a little more work…
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 pm
The backward bending labor supply curve!
Yey for microeconomics.
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I disagree. (Someone is wrong on the Internet!)
* If you are very broke, you have a lot of free time.
* If you have only a little money, you have to work like a camel.
* If you have some more money, you can afford a little free time.
* If you have a lot of money, you’re working a high-responsability job and work like a camel.
* If you are very rich, you don’t have to work at all.
So your curve is missing a central hump; it should look more like a W.
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
so bloody true.. .i just changed my fb status before jumping here.. lmao..
December 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I think it’s interesting that the lowest point is where the cause and effect relationship are reversed…
The less time you use freely (not working) the more money you have, until you hit a tipping point of being able to afford some free time.
Very succinctly captured. (Though, that’s the point of a diagram)
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Great points Jaime and Anon.
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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December 22nd, 2008 at 5:00 pm
How true!
December 22nd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
True to a point. The money axis could say “perception of wealth”. ….. But then it wouldn’t be as funny.
December 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 am
It would still depend on how you are going to use the time. For some people, free time still is making them money.
December 23rd, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Wow - somebody has never been broke as shit working two jobs to support a family. The comments above asking for a W are along the right track, but the real answer is: hard work and effort have some relation to money and free time, but not one as direct as we like to tell ourselves.
December 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 pm
At the very least, I guess the graph is notable in that it’s gotten everybody talking about things! Kind of like Duchamp’s “Fountain”
December 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Ah, yes. Would someone please buy our house in the midwest so we can afford to keep our apartment in NJ, where we moved for my husband’s job? *sigh*
December 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 pm
it is accurately what I need
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June 9th, 2009 at 2:29 am
graph cannot reverse at tiping point.
it needs to be flat at bottom.
we stretch a lot-probably many years in that condiction- good earning with no free time