In many parts of Europe, it’s common for workers to take off weeks at a time, especially during the summer. Envious Americans say it’s time for the U.S. to follow suit.
Some 66% of U.S. workers say companies should adopt extended vacation policies, like a month off in August, in their workplaces, according to a Morning Consult survey of 1,047 U.S. adults.
It starts by having Proportional Vote which then feeds-into and feeds-off a culture of political consensus.
This is unlike all those Potekin-Democracies out there - some worse than others - with electoral circle systems (worse, single representative ones with First Past The Post) mathematically rigged to create a duopoly of power which are associated with a “everything has two and only two sides” political and news culture and passing as “politics” and “ideology” something which is nothing more than a shouty circus of us-vs-them focused on the things that make the least difference, to distract from the absence of real choice for those things which do matter because they dictate lifetime outcomes and every day affect people’s quality of life and how they are treated (tons of bullshit about identity but complete total consensus with total descriminationo on and maximizing the outcomes and dynastic nature of wealth).
I’ve lived in a couple of countries in Europe with different voting systems and of those Nederland is well ahead the others, especially the ones with voting systems using purellly electoral circles (the UK - which has single choice FPTP electoral circles and an unellect monarch - was especially bad) - I firmly believe that real democratic choice is behind a lot of it (though culture too) and think the greatest problem in the West is a lack of democracy were most people trully are represented rather a theatre of “democracy” were all they can do is choose an “evil” (sold to them as the “lesser” one).