When people talk about wealth inequality, one myth that gets perpetuated is that people who are rich are so because they work harder or longer. The question of who works harder is more qualitative and tough to judge, but is it true that wealthy people work longer hours than people who aren't wealthy?

Ruben Mathisen, a PhD candidate in comparative politics at the University of Bergen in Norway, studies economic inequality and creates data visualizations on Twitter. He recently shared a series of charts to compare the working hours of the rich and the poor in different countries, and found that they actually work similar hours.

Mathisen's charts plot the average working hours of different income percentiles, and they're similar both in the US and in different countries around the world. Take a look.

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Working Hours Around The World

Working Hours In The US

From Ruben Mathisen via Twitter

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