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 Originally Posted by BooG690
Have any references with this information? I'd be interested in reading a good summary of this and I'm too lazy to Google.
I don't, but I might be able to find some specifics if I look later
Over the years, I've heard from many different sources about how places like Germany, Finland, Norway, etc operate on these sorts of things. It's always quite a bit of vacation time, lots of maternity/paternity leave, shorter work weeks, and a response to recessions is to shorten the work weeks even more so as to not have to fire people
And all of this goes with universal health care, really strong safety net/welfare systems, free higher education, nearly to completely full employment, etc. In countries with less economic strength than the US, even
Most of what we hear about this sorta stuff is all lies dumped on us by the sociopaths or greedy who have risen to the top. The resources and technology already exists for life to be very good for everybody alive. That would just mean a restructuring of the world's system of wealth distribution, which is heresy to those it already favors
An anecdote, my brother lived in Garmisch, Germany about ten years ago, and I remember him telling me that they had a ton of 3 day weekends. It seemed to him that they tacked on lots of different drinking "holidays" to the weekends. Also, his two closest friends from there worked regular ol jobs, yet had enough time and money to travel to places like the US and Argentina for weeks to snowboard each year
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