Lower income individuals and families have less access to cars, more reliance upon public transport, fewer energy saving devices and they tend to be concentrated in manual labour occupations. The majority of roles in catering, cleaning and construction, as just three examples, are poorly paid and highly physically demanding. A coffee shop barista is on his or her feet all day long, for little more than minimum wage. Builders are the modern day equivalent of mine workers and the company owners tend to be the rich and inactive and the manual workers tend to be the poor and active. Builders are
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