When I was 20 I couldn’t afford the $5 a day jury pay. I would’ve starved to death before a trial lasted a week. When I get out of grad school with a masters degree in computing in the mid 90s and escaped student poverty I was making over $100 an hour and I was not giving that up either. One hour work was more that 20 days of jury duty.
Okay.
Place I worked would have made up the difference, but I see your point.