For those of you tired of working already, you might want to skip this piece. It won’t make you feel much better about it.
You see, it turns out that Friday was Take Back Your Time Day. The idea was to take off Friday in a show of solidarity to show that we need to, well, take more time off. Apparently Friday marked the day where we Americans have worked as much as some people in Western Europe will work all year.
Of course, the site doesn’t seem to mention that perhaps we have a higher standard of living, or can pay our bills or what other changes might be a reward for working as much as we apparently do. That could be because there really aren’t any advantages. Or it could be because we like to work as much as we do.
Personally, I’m much more concerned that we have to pay so much money in taxes. If we didn’t lose such a large percentage of our income to taxes, perhaps we’d be able to work less and maintain the same standard of living. Harry Browne, the Libertarian presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, put together a nice essay about the subject this past April 15th. Perhaps instead of worrying what they’re doing across the pond (as they say), we should worry about fixing things here. Then let them do the worrying for us while we enjoy the results of our labors.