take vacation? vacation. and like you said in the beginning, many workers don t have vacation, don t have paid sick days and so not having these actual federal policies creates an unspoken word across the board. there s a race to the bottom. countries say, you have to take 20 days, then everyone takes 20 days and no one s looking over their shoulder in the workplace who didn t take any time? that s right. i think there s a broader societal issue of, maybe it is the protestant work ethic on some level. there s definitely a sense that in this country we in other countries they work to live. we live to work on some level. and i see it infecting even when the president came out with this idea of grading colleges,
take vacation? vacation. and like you said in the beginning, many workers don t have vacation, don t have paid sick days and so not having these actual federal policies creates an unspoken word across the board. there s a race to the bottom. countries say, you have to take 20 days, then everyone takes 20 days and no one s looking over their shoulder in the workplace who didn t take any time? that s right. i think there s a broader societal issue of, maybe it is the protestant work ethic on some level. there s definitely a sense that in this country we in other countries they work to live. we live to work on some level. and i see it infecting even when the president came out with this idea of grading colleges,
this idea of grading colleges, based on a return of investment, it makes money on asended value. the idea of working in asended value, there s a lot of things that are valuable about education, if we devalue those things, reading a book, learning, being a citizen. then the idea of going home and spending time with your family or growing out and, i don t know, playing in the park. thinking socially about that time with family. it always strikes me as this country that talks about family so much, and our politics are so about family, like we don t really have a cultural value of that time with family as time. as a thing that we all are committed to and want to do, and whatever kind of family you have on the spectrum of traditional and nontraditional, right? it s not valued. and what this study shows us is that it is making us less healthy and less productive. it s counter intuitive for people. the more you work, the more productive you are, it isn t. we have to make the shift to the
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