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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Dec \ parent \ on: Work Work Work Work Work! (The Economist) econ
Is leisure a normal good?
I bring this up a lot when people talk about how income taxes lead to less work. It’s not clear that they either do or should.
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 12 Dec
Good point. But then that makes the deadweight loss of taxation even harder to explain.
(Not meaning the DWL isn't there, more in the sense that it's hard to explain to people where DWL comes from).
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67 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Dec
That’s a great point! I don’t think I’ve seen it raised before.
Yeah, it’s harder to explain the economic importance of what amounts to forgone leisure.
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