In Denmark we have minimum 5 weeks paid vacation every year for full-time jobs. Many have 6 weeks, some have 7 weeks.
It's a luxury but one that Americans should be able to afford for all.
It's a luxury but one that Americans should be able to afford for all.
I'm not sure people are even stressed about vacations. I think people are so stressed that if they lose their jobs, they lose their healthcare and since so many people have so little savings they face homelessness (our school system doesn't do a very good job of teaching economics for the individual - my parents taught me), They're stressed because their hormones are out of whack because for so many our diet and exercise routines are horrible (though, some of that could be blamed on long commutes). It's a symphony of issues that's causing stress derived from work that isn't the work itself, or time away from it =(
If you lose a job in the US, you lose your healthcare (COBRA is way to expensive to be an option). Minimal housing protections in most states means you're one missed payment away from homelessness. Food banks are critically short-staffed and under-stocked across the US. Jobless benefits can take weeks or months to receive and even then they're usually well below what a person needs to survive.
There was such a stigma against moochers and "welfare queens" in the 80s and 90s that politicians would rather cut funding to all benefits than let one person abuse the system. Florida even spent $178 million on drug tests to save from paying out $60k in welfare because addicts don't deserve to eat for some reason.
World peace.
Stressed, isolated, distracted people tend to work for the weekend and live in day-tight compartments.
When something upsets them, they post about it on social media and feel better.
When something really upsets them, they make a petition on change.org and feel better.
When something really, really upsets them, they reach out to a friend, but that friend is too stressed or busy or distracted to care.
When something really, really, really upsets them, they do something violent which plays on the news at 11 to distract some while the rest are too busy or stressed to care.
Get every other country on-board, connect them with a global supply chain, and voilà!
For the shareholders, of course.
The first sick day might be unpaid though. Here it depends on the occupation, as in, which collective agreement your industry uses. I think the idea is that it reduces "unnecessary" sick days, but I think I have my first sick day as paid and I think the last time I had a sick day was around when World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth came out in 2018 (I swear it was a coincidence).
Agreed, but health care first, no?