Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
One of my pet peeves. Why has so little of economic progress been converted into buying time for people?

Surely one of the greatest improvements in quality of life for the working classes since 1850 has been to reduce working hours and extend time off from work in weekends and vacations? Why did this stop?
I don't know, but it seems people consistently underestimate the value of vacation time. One of our blind spots, either innate or cultural, I guess.

Welcome to Europe, where it's considered progress that a worker no longer sweats in a factory for sixteen hours a day, six days a week, no holidays, from age five until death.