No , but it does show there are ' issues ' that need to be addressed and should be . <| sep |> this submission is dumbfounding . Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking toil , but the peasant enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to half the year off . The Church , mindful of how to keep a population from rebelling , enforced frequent mandatory holidays . . There were laborfree Sundays , and when the plowing and harvesting seasons were over , the peasant got time to rest , too . you mean those bound to lifelong agrarian menial work , heavily interdicted by authoritarian power structures , religious political , conformed to calendar variability in labor output ? you don ' t say . why vacation time is left used , how increased worked time correlate to broader financial cultural factorsthese are complex , interesting topics , with significant data to back up the basic assertion that when compared to affluent industrial societies , americans work longer hours take less time off . but this is execrably set up , it indulges in similarly disingenuous gambitsDespite more time off , German workers are the eighth most productive in Europe , while the longtoiling Greeks rank 24 out of 25 in productivity . absurd . we ' re going compare contrast germans to longtoiling Greeks neglect how the latter also happen to live in the epicenter of balkan tax evasion , corruption out of control pension benefits ? a closing note on the impressivelytitled Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking with an equally impressive background in . local tv ? teaching english in the czech republic ? ? taught taught theory of literature , film , and advertising in NYU ' s School of Continuing and Professional Studies ? ? clearly a good source for incisive economic analysis .