I agree with much of this article, but just as a counterpoint: > Americans could stop working each year on September 20th and they’d still be richer than Brito

I agree with much of this article, but just as a counterpoint: > Americans could stop working each year on September 20th and they’d still be richer than Britons working for the whole year. ...and yet the average American almost never stops working. That car wash manager in Alabama gets three weeks of PTO per year, and probably earns every cent of their $125k -- Buc-ee's is a pretty demanding employer, I think? Of course I would like to see the UK import the average GDP of the US, but I'm not sure I want the social structures that go along with it. I would rather be importing those from our former friends in the EU, with whom we actually have a lot more in common with culturally than we like to admit.