Hacker News Reader

I doubt the 70k makes $12 an hour. Likely a supervisor making say $20 an hour.. comes to a base of 42k.

Other 28k he would make in 17 hours of overtime per week (Remember you get time and a half for overtime), for a total of 57 hour weeks.

Not out of the question hours in a busy factory. I did some of those in college summer days...

View on HN

But now you are working 57 hours a week in steady state to make that $70K and it does not sound like such a good deal any more.

It's not a good deal! Thats why I code.

But that is how some working class people make enough to sound their kids to private school. Working their tails off.

I see that they have to do that as a moral failing of capitalism, both that public schooling is insufficiently good for their children and that a worker's base wage is insufficient to provide for that worker's child's education.

I mean your child gets an education either way, its do you get top 5% private school or public school? You can't give everyone free access to a top private school, or it is no longer a top by definition ;)

Working 57 hour weeks for a couple months is a different game than working them as a fact of life.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com