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Are there 34% of Americans who own businesses?
Edit: math before coffee
I work at a semiconductor fab in Portland Oregon, we get 5 weeks paid vacation. There''s a fairly large group of my coworkers who never use their vacation or sicktime out of principal.
Only because it's not a law. In Germany, it's usual to get 30 days of vacation, 20 are legal minimum. Your employer is required to make sure, you actually take at least 20 days and can be fined otherwise.
The government forcing you to relax and have fun, or else, is wonderfully absurd. Feels like a paradox to be honest.
Our government doesn't care about us beyond how much value we can produce for the Oligarchs. The exception being certain natural disasters. Even then, how much they care is dependent on whether it gets national coverage, or international coverage.
No, they force your employer. Not you. That's a huge difference. You're free to do whatever you want, but your employer has to make sure, you actually get that time.
The government are not "forcing" anyone to relax.
The government is forcing companies to allow you to take your PTO. Without said laws there are almost certainly going to be companies that will shame workers/create hostile environments to force employees into not taking their PTO.
They really are required not just to allow you take time off, but to make sure you take it. Which is great because as you say it leaves no room for pressure tactics.
And yeah I did once work with a weirdo who had no life and got really mad that he was forced to take time off :D
What principle is this exactly?
The "I'm so tough I don't need a vacation" most likely.
The principle of boot licking 😋🤤
In Portland or in Washington County?
Americans and voting against their best interests. Name a better duo.
Working in bad conditions so you can talk down to people that you perceive as lesser humans than you is the #1 interest for a lot of the country.
No they just didn’t ask the 34%. The way they are framing this is backwards.
The real headline is. American wage slaves have zero paid time off.