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There might also be some interesting tradeoffs between part-time council members vs. full-time council members.

But yeah, we have jury duty in the States as well, and that can be a full time commitment for a big trial.

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@dynamic @tfardet Interesting that members of the US Congress are considered part time, but their compensation is at least 5 times the median income.

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@dynamic @tfardet I misspoke. State representatives are part time. National representatives are full time. In Indiana, state representatives make about 2 times the national median income, so still pretty lucrative for part time (91 days in two years split 60/31).

At the national level, the sessions are (2019-2021) 193/164, which is still 3-4 times the amount of time off that most office workers get in the USA.

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Thanks for the clarification on congressional status as full- vs. part-time, Lee.

Back during the most recent presidential impeachment I heard a Chomsky interview where he was grousing about how Congress could make time to have a more substantive impeachment trial if the members of congress would agree that this was important enough that they should temporarily give up on having a 3-day work week, so it wouldn't have surprised me *too* much if it really were considered a part time job.

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I did not know that they are considered part time. That's appalling. I guess that also sheds light on how they make time for campaigning for things.

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