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In the United States, they will never do this. Our society is too heavily influenced by the "Protestant work ethic", and we have a folk lore about hard work and
by Delmania 12y ago
In the United States, they will never do this. Our society is too heavily influenced by the "Protestant work ethic", and we have a folk lore about hard work and success. Plus many politicians are "pro-business" and take the stance many business owners do: that we should be grateful for having a job and be willing to sacrifice for our company without any expectation of reward.
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoThe Dutch have a strong Protestant work ethic too, and are pro-business, good traders and still consider five weeks holiday normal. What is needed is people to realise that those five weeks is not lost business, but happy productive employees for the rest of the year.
- Chinjut 12y agoOr, what's needed is for us as a society to decide we have some other fundamental goal than "productivity".
- bjelkeman-again 12y agoYeah. That too. Being a European I have slightly different possibilities than in the U.S., but fundamentally, having lived in both places, I belive one can be the change here, and there.