What else should the federal govt do, apart from outlawing it?
Force employers to hire based on gender, racial quotas?
>There are fewer holidays and in some cases, American companies only allow two weeks a year for holidays. Christmas holidays are fewer with only December 25th being an official day and people do return to work on December 26th.
Depends where you work. If you wash dishes for minimum wage, I wouldn't expect multi-week paid vacations.
Not everyone can just switch jobs, not everyone is in a career in demand like that. Also, the fact that you suggest that dish washers shouldn't get vacation is telling. The lower and middle classes need stability too, yet in America, you've either made it or you haven't. It's way too binary in my opinion. You act like there's no personal freedom in Germany, but with their paid vacation for _everyone_ and socialized healthcare, it seems to me like they have much more freedom than your typical American.
> Not everyone can just switch jobs, not everyone is in a career in demand like that.
Career is a choice. But of course, most people don't have 100% job security.
>Also, the fact that you suggest that dish washers shouldn't get vacation is telling
That's not what I said.
They should have all the vacations they want, but not at other taxpayers' expense.
Otherwise, you have hard-working people give up to 60% of their income away for vacations of dishwashers.
Perhaps this is a great achievement for Swedes, but would be looked down upon in the US.
> The lower and middle classes need stability too, yet in America, you've either made it or you haven't. It's way too binary in my opinion.
Inequality of results is a logical result of capitalism.
You can't have the cake and eat it too.
If everyone 'made it', no one would truly 'make it'.
> You act like there's no personal freedom in Germany, but with their paid vacation for _everyone_ and socialized healthcare, it seems to me like they have much more freedom than your typical American.
Sure, but the benefits fall largely upon the lower classes.
Wealthier individuals don't need so much help from the state, yet they're the ones contributing the most.
By no means I aim to defend everything that goes on in the US - e.g. the healthcare situation is abysmal.
But ultimately, there are pros and cons of both approaches to policy.
>Inequality of results is a logical result of capitalism. You can't have the cake and eat it too.
This is absurd. There are people who are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year while tens of thousands of people work minimum wage jobs because that's all they can get, and you're saying that it's their fault for not producing more? You really need to realize that our quality of life isn't because we are so amazing, but because of the opportunities our position in the world and society have given us. And in America, those opportunities are being offered to fewer and fewer people: economic mobility is declining, and has for a while[1]. A person can only pull on their bootstraps so hard.
>1. Practically everyone takes a summer vacation in Sweden
>2. In Sweden, it's somewhat easier to be a working parent
>3. Coffee breaks are serious business in Sweden
1,2 are consequences of semi-socialist policies. Also, coffee breaks?
On the other hand, most Swedes will pay between 49 and 60 per cent through a combination of local government and state income tax. No thanks.
Get back to me when software devs across industry start making six digits in europe.
> http://www.expatfocus.com/expatriate-usa-business-culture
> Discrimination in the Workplace
What else should the federal govt do, apart from outlawing it? Force employers to hire based on gender, racial quotas?
>There are fewer holidays and in some cases, American companies only allow two weeks a year for holidays. Christmas holidays are fewer with only December 25th being an official day and people do return to work on December 26th.
Depends where you work. If you wash dishes for minimum wage, I wouldn't expect multi-week paid vacations.
> https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/america...
tldr
> Why do so many people—particularly women—seem to have so much on their plates?
That's what they wanted
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> All of the links above describe a culture where the employees feel underappreciated and overworked.
If they're underappreciated, they can switch jobs. If they're overworked, its by choice or a consequence of bad decision making.
Ultimately, there's much more personal freedom. And if some people fail to take advantage of that, its not the system's fault.