why? if you're poor, the amount of time you need to spend just taking care of life's basic necessities goes way up. getting things done efficiently, getting other people to do things for you, and deciding you can sacrifice a few hours' earning potential to do something else, are all things that require you be well-off first.

I don't know about Hong Kong, but not in the States. Time is a luxury.

Only if you wrongly assume that poor people don't work.

In the US it's generally true.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2010.pdf (Note: read past the title.)

However, the US is an unusual place, so we should certainly not extrapolate that the same is true in Hong Kong or anywhere else (besides Canada).

> Only if you wrongly assume that poor people don't work.

Fiscal conservatives must assume this or their philosophy does not work.