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Comment author: Nornagest 19 April 2012 11:30:33PM *  3 points [-]

I can't really imagine a lot of situations where a person has months to themselves without triggering one of those two...

Retirement, among people with retirement savings and no major health issues yet? I'm sure that's been studied. There's also a number of professions where hiatuses of a couple months at a time are normal -- teaching comes to mind, as do the more lucrative forms of seasonal employment.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 April 2012 08:12:55AM 0 points [-]

There are also people with inherited money.

There's a category I call the petty rich. They have enough money that they don't need to work, so long as they maintain a middle class or lower lifestyle. I'm not sure how many there are, but I've met a few. I've never seen them discussed or studied-- they aren't exactly conspicuous.