The fungible benefit of money plus the freedom to take whatever time off you'd like without pay is more flexible than an assortment of non-fungible paid days of

The fungible benefit of money plus the freedom to take whatever time off you'd like without pay is more flexible than an assortment of non-fungible paid days off that are designated for very specific uses, with an employer getting up in your business to police your use of them. Of course this relies on being paid enough to be able to forgo some earnings, and not being financialized so hard such that a paycheck has been spent before it's even earned. So it can't scale in popularity due to the economic feedback loop designed to keep real wages low, and the financial system primarily based on debt.