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I average 100 hours per week. I think you sound sickly sheltered.

I agree. I'm 13 and spend over 120 hours per week in the oil mines of North Dakota. I puked when I read the first comment and slammed my laptop shut because I was shaking with disgust.

You get to leave the oil mines? Talk about preferential treatment, you have it easy!

We are allowed 45 minutes for cigarettes and internet before Sunday prayers and lights-out.

After too long of averaging 100 hours a week, I think you're just going to be sickly, not sickly sheltered.

No matter what, you don't have to work 100 hours a week to survive. The fact that you choose to do so isn't saying much about you.

> No matter what, you don't have to work 100 hours a week to survive.

Assuming this is talking about Americans, that's sort of an entertaining claim, since most of the modern policy discussions have been about deciding whether or not you are allowed to survive if you don't work enough.

I'm not American, but surely "enough" is still less than two full time jobs plus a part time one?

i work about 60. 100 is excessive. that's not impressive, just stupid.

I do only what is necessary to survive. You sound like most of your bills are still paid by mommy and daddy.

How do you have time to post on HN?

Mind me asking what exactly your living standards are and which position you fullfill that you need 100 hours of work to survive?

Person works 60 hours a week, and is thus clearly still freeloading on their parents? Are you attempting to be comical?

did you catch the part where i said i work? happens every week, in fact.

How many of said 100 hours do you spend in coal mines or heavy engineering factories?

I don't know where you live, but I'll assume US. In other countries, the wages are different (usually lower), but the salary/cost of living ratio tends to be similar.

The minimum wage over there is $7.25. Are you really telling me that you need $3K per month to survive?

Norway apparently

Probably not, considering Torkild got a cellphone under an US federal benefit program.

Are you really telling me that you need $3K per month to survive?

Maybe we need to take him more literally. Maybe what he means is he owes the mob a lot of money, and if he doesn't pay them $2.5k/month they will kill him?

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