Money vs Pleasure: Would you work 100 hour weeks for $200K/year?

Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

EagleEyedOne

No, Id have no time to spend that money

Well, that would probably kill you. So, no.

no thanks

With a wage of over $40 an hour you could just work a 40 hour week and use your free time and $80, 000 dollar a year income (a.k.a. about 2.5x the median income of an American) to try and find some way of getting an even more lucrative job.

Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

EagleEyedOne

There is a point where you have enough money to do the things you like so you start to work less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_bending_supply_curve_of_labour

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Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

GummiRaccoon

There is a point where you have enough money to do the things you like so you start to work less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_bending_supply_curve_of_labour

I work 84 hour weeks. For 2 weeks straight, then i get 2 weeks off.FrostyPhantasm

[QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]I work 84 hour weeks. For 2 weeks straight, then i get 2 weeks off.Nibroc420

edit: but i currently don't live in the camp.

Hell yeah I would. And I'd be smart about my money, save/invest it, and retire stupid early.

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="FrostyPhantasm"]I work 84 hour weeks. For 2 weeks straight, then i get 2 weeks off.FrostyPhantasm

edit: but i currently don't live in the camp.

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Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

Laihendi

There is a point where you have enough money to do the things you like so you start to work less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_bending_supply_curve_of_labour

who?

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[QUOTE="Nibroc420"] Ahh oil camps.Nibroc420

edit: but i currently don't live in the camp.

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Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

Laihendi

There is a point where you have enough money to do the things you like so you start to work less.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_bending_supply_curve_of_labour

Doubtful, especially if he is asking the question he is in the OP.  There have been countless studies done on this.

[QUOTE="Laihendi"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]take economics, they discuss this very thing.

 

There is a point where you have enough money to do the things you like so you start to work less.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_bending_supply_curve_of_labour

GummiRaccoon

Doubtful, especially if he is asking the question he is in the OP.  There have been countless studies done on this.

[QUOTE="Laihendi"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]take economics, they discuss this very thing.

 

There is a point where you have enough money to do the things you like so you start to work less.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward_bending_supply_curve_of_labour

GummiRaccoon

Doubtful, especially if he is asking the question he is in the OP.  There have been countless studies done on this.

Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

EagleEyedOne

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Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

MrGeezer

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[QUOTE="Laihendi"] I believe he has a PhD in economics from Columbia.Nibroc420

Doubtful, especially if he is asking the question he is in the OP.  There have been countless studies done on this.

The only more simple question he could have asked was "If things cost less, will you be more likely to buy it?"

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

Doubtful, especially if he is asking the question he is in the OP.  There have been countless studies done on this.

GummiRaccoon

The only more simple question he could have asked was "If things cost less, will you be more likely to buy it?"

Uh no. That would be awful. If it was like a million a year I would probably do it though.

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[QUOTE="Nibroc420"] Maybe he's seen the studies, but would like to raise the question anyways? It's like that other stupid thread "If someone gave you a baby and $20 mil, would you care for the baby?" I'm sure that question has had a study done on it, and I'm sure it's been asked dozens of times. However that doesn't mean the person is an idiot for simply asking what people would do.Nibroc420

The only more simple question he could have asked was "If things cost less, will you be more likely to buy it?"

He asked an ignorant question, that is exactly the evidence needed to deduce that he is uneducated.

EDIT: second piece of evidence, someone responded with a thought out response and his reaction was essentially "TLDR"

Y'all realize that 100 hour weeks would be over 14 hours a day. Even if you only slept 5 hours a night, you would only have 5 hours to eat, dress, shower, commute, exercise, relax, run errands, socialize

Y'all realize that 100 hour weeks would be over 14 hours a day. Even if you only slept 5 hours a night, you would only have 5 hours to eat, dress, shower, commute, exercise, relax, run errands, socialize

lostrib

[QUOTE="Nibroc420"][QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"] Guess so, lazy people like to find the simplest ways of reaching their goals.EagleEyedOne

I don't understand where these threads go, sometimes. 

[QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"][QUOTE="Nibroc420"] It usually makes them more efficient in the long run too. Lazy people are the reason we have pulleys, fork-lifts, etc. They're too lazy to pick things up and move them, so they find a simpler way of getting the same work done.Shmiity

I don't understand where these threads go, sometimes. 

[QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"][QUOTE="Nibroc420"] It usually makes them more efficient in the long run too. Lazy people are the reason we have pulleys, fork-lifts, etc. They're too lazy to pick things up and move them, so they find a simpler way of getting the same work done.Shmiity

I don't understand where these threads go, sometimes. 

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[QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"] Hell yeah. We've all heard "simplify the equation."EagleEyedOne

I don't understand where these threads go, sometimes. 

I usually paint ceilings on Mondays, but chickens run across roads. 

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Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

verbtex

No, Id have no time to spend that money

[QUOTE="lostrib"]

Y'all realize that 100 hour weeks would be over 14 hours a day. Even if you only slept 5 hours a night, you would only have 5 hours to eat, dress, shower, commute, exercise, relax, run errands, socialize

EagleEyedOne

[QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"][QUOTE="Shmiity"]

I don't understand where these threads go, sometimes. 

Shmiity

I usually paint ceilings on Mondays, but chickens run across roads. 

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[QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"] It is not that complex.EagleEyedOne

I usually paint ceilings on Mondays, but chickens run across roads. 

[QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"][QUOTE="lostrib"]

Y'all realize that 100 hour weeks would be over 14 hours a day. Even if you only slept 5 hours a night, you would only have 5 hours to eat, dress, shower, commute, exercise, relax, run errands, socialize

MrGeezer

[QUOTE="EagleEyedOne"][QUOTE="Shmiity"]

I usually paint ceilings on Mondays, but chickens run across roads. 

Nibroc420

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Money can buy pleasure but pleasure is not necessarily measured by money. Would you work over 100 hours/week in order to gain over $200K per year?

gamerguru100

No, Id have no time to spend that money

A week has 7 * 24 hours in it. 168 hours.
168 hours - 100 hours = 68 hours.
Assuming 8 hours of sleep is normal, 8 * 7 = 56. 
68 hours - 56 hours = 12 hours. 
Assuming 15 minutes of eating time per three meals a day is normal, ((15*3)*7)/60=5.25.
12 hours - 5.25 hours = 6.75 hours.
6.75 hours of free time per week isn't worth 200K a year regardless of taxation, especially considering unfactored time-costs (transportation, etc.).