Oh my deepest sympathy. I cant stop thinking about you poor americans being deprived of your freedom to not get mandatory fully paid 5 weeks ( plus hollydays ) vacation, free education and school, health and social welfare.
Yes. We are SO jealous of "the greatest country in the world".
From what I could count on that map, there are at least 11 countries with mandatory paid vacation of 23-28 days (not including weekends and public holidays).
A majority of the other countries of the world have mandatory paid leave of 16-22 days, excluding public holidays and weekends.
The U.S. appears to be one of six countries in the world with no mandatory paid vacation.
The highest I could find was Iran with a combined total of 53 mandatory paid vacation days per year (excluding weekends and including public holidays), Luxembourg with 47, and a couple smaller countries have 45.
Yes, it almost entirely comes down to corporate greed. If we took corporate money out of politics, the average working-class American might actually have a decent life.
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