it is insane to me that Americans know that people in many other civilized countries take *entire months off of their jobs with pay* and still don’t rise up in vicious revolt https://t.co/uKrc0ZwvGp

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) October 25, 2021

Yeah, that’s always been mystifying to me too. For a while I worked for a German company and thus many of my colleagues were based in Germany. It was common for them to say things like, “Well, I’ll be gone for all of August so that will be done when I come back in September.”

Much of the world has it so much better than the US. But, as with medical care, according to people who’ve never even traveled outside the country, anything better is 100% impossible.