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Right. So that'll be the vast amounts of unpaid vacation that they were all enjoying. And I'm sure they were enjoying the extended vacations because of the str
by lucozade 9y ago
Right. So that'll be the vast amounts of unpaid vacation that they were all enjoying.
And I'm sure they were enjoying the extended vacations because of the strong contractual obligations that the landowners had to their serfs.
The US do have an issue with the amount of vacation time that they have but it's close to infantile to compare it so naively to the Middle Ages.
If you're going to compare it to Europe (which this is doing), how about comparing it to Europe in, say, the 21C?
- pjmlp 9y ago> If you're going to compare it to Europe (which this is doing), how about comparing it to Europe in, say, the 21C? Sure, between 20 and 30 days paid vacation depending on the country, illness isn't considered vacation and usually gets paid up to 6 months. Oh then there is the paternal and maternity leave, up to two years, depending on the country.
- lucozade 9y agoPrecisely. There are countries, working under very similar constraints to modern day US, that are trying, and succeeding, with other arrangements. This should be the focus of the compare and contrast because it's a valuable comparison. I've seen a few of these, Monty Python-esque, comparisons recently. There was one in the Guardian that asserted (wildly incorrectly) that female life expectancy had decreased since the 19C. If I was prone to paranoia, I'd be concerned that they are planted by folk that want the status quo and are making these cartoonish comparisons to make it easy to lampoon.