Goshen News, Goshen, IN  July 11, 2013  Why are poor people more
upbeat about working?  By Matthew Yglesias  WASHINGTON — A new
research method using a smartphone app reveals that people are
often stressed out and miserable at work, according to The Wall
Street Journal. This doesn't exactly shock me. After all,
there's a reason people get paid salaries to work. But I wish
the coverage had dwelled longer on this point from the very last
paragraph in the Journal article:                             
Respondents with very low incomes tended to have a much less
negative reaction to work. That may be, Mr. Bryson said, because
their options outside work "are not very nice. . . . In that
sense, they may as well be working."         I suppose it's true
that very poor people have less attractive leisure options than
middle-class people. But at the same time, very low wages seem
to me to be correlated with jobs that are unpleasant in other
ways. In the United States, at least, the labor force
participation rate is corr