U.S. is the only developed country with no guaranteed paid vacation or holidays

Re:U.S. is the only developed country with no guaranteed pai... by splintercell on Monday May 27, 2013 @01:41PM (#5775653)

The problem is that an increasing percentage of jobs in the economy are either zero-sum or positive sum but very competitive or winner-takes-all in nature. In such a situation, unilaterally choosing to take a vacation can be a death sentence. But if everyone takes a vacation, everyone could be better off.

I wouldn't be. I don't wanna trade money for vacation. I am young, immigrant, I wanna save up money, I don't wanna trade vacation time for my salary.

You can make your case if you want, but please avoid taking anonymous authority and say things like "if everyone takes a vacation, everyone could be better off, if we just used the government to force every employer to give everyone vacation time".

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Re:U.S. is the only developed country with no guaranteed pai... by bokonist on Monday May 27, 2013 @02:18PM (#5775829)

"I don't wanna trade money for vacation."

My point is that the tradeoff between money and vacation does not exist in the aggregate. You get the vacation for free simply from moving to the lose-lose quadrant of the prisoner's dilemma to the win-win quadrant.

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Re:U.S. is the only developed country with no guaranteed pai... by lawnchair_larry on Monday May 27, 2013 @05:08PM (#5776592)

Note that we are talking about paid vacation. You get both. Your paycheck still comes, but you don't go to work.

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