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Seems like my sleeping patterns are a lot different than those of most other people. Also, I felt depressed to see that people spend most of their lives sleeping and working or in some transition thereof.
It's extremely surprising that by 3pm in the middle of the day, there are as many people enjoying leisure time as there are people working (about 30%). Where are these people? I don't see anyone leaving the office at 3pm where I work. I'm pretty sure that the 'average day' doesn't mean weekend. I thought it might be night shift workers, but then during the night, only about 1% of people are working.
If you work a five-day week with a two-day weekend, then 28% of the time you're also not working at 3PM, so don't get too jealous of all the lucky stiffs having 3PM leisure time. :)
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3am is when the really strange things happen. It's too late for most people to be out after a night at the bar and too early for even the earlybirds to be out and about. The last time I regularly saw 3am was my first couple of years in college when we were experimenting with things that make it tough to sleep.
Makes sense. According to the data sim, from 3:15am to just before 4am, about 96% of people are asleep. So if you're up and about at that time, you're really seeing an unusual slice of the population.
I wake up @ 4AM most days to get my work out in. Walking to the gym gives me a glimpse of a different America. It's mostly men, white guys in my city, they are all middle class looking dudes. Loading up trucks at the nearby grocery or beginning/ending their shift, maybe some security guards once in a while. There's some homeless people every once in a while but for the most part they don't seem to be active. There ar…
> It's mostly men, white guys in my city I am sorry, I am not American, though I live here. Does this not in itself contribute to the uncomfortable feelings of women and minorities in your city?
And I'm not too sure men at work, regardless of race, rank very high on the scale of people you're scared to run into in the early morning, even in your place of origin.
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Fun fact: if you took all the income in the U.S. (labor + capital) and distributed it evenly, every adult person would make about $65,000. Quite comfortable, and maybe a big improvement on the status quo, but still "working stiff" territory. We still live in an era where America's protestant work ethic is relevant. Maybe that'll change decades from now, but we're still quite a ways away from being in a post-scarcity…
That would more than double the current average income. Right now the average family of four makes about 60k.
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I don't actually think your second point is correct on either a historical or practical level. Historically, humans had a lot of what would now be considered downtime, especially in certain societies. And practically, nothing actually "requires" that except for the fact that we've set up society in such a way to allow some people get to grow wildly wealthy on the backs on the labor of most of the people putting in th…
Fun fact: if you took all the income in the U.S. (labor + capital) and distributed it evenly, every adult person would make about $65,000. Quite comfortable, and maybe a big improvement on the status quo, but still "working stiff" territory. We still live in an era where America's protestant work ethic is relevant. Maybe that'll change decades from now, but we're still quite a ways away from being in a post-scarcity…
The knock-on effects of profit-seeking are large. And not all bad, of course.
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I try to be in bed by 10 or 10:30.
So are you sleeping 5.5-6 hours per night? Is this just on work days or all the time? How long can you / have you sustained doing this regularly?
I was surprised the numbers at work around 1-3 PM only tops off at 30%. It said the diagram was for ages 25 to 34, most of these people should be working 9 to 5 jobs though.
I thought the numbers would go upwards of 50% to 60%
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I try to be in bed by 10 or 10:30.
So are you sleeping 5.5-6 hours per night? Is this just on work days or all the time? How long can you / have you sustained doing this regularly?