Vive La France
From the New York Times:
To the Editor:
It isn’t enough that Americans are now routinely working 14-hour days, that no one cooks a real dinner anymore, that kids and parents stand around eating takeout in the kitchen at 10 p.m., that dinnertime conversation is dead, that the two-week family vacation is a thing of the past? Now we have to do this to the French?
If they have spent any time thinking at all, they’ll conclude that a life of ever more fancy gadgets and bigger houses to clean but no leisure time is a poor exchange. We could learn a few things from them. Vive le 35-hour workweek!
Carolyn Ziegler
Pine Mountain Club, Calif.
Oct. 18, 2007
Sad, isn’t it. Personally, I view work as an infringement on my time and my life. An insult. The blackmail of survival. I don’t know how I came up with that since I’ve lived on this side of the Atlantic my entire life.
Posted on October 22nd, 2007 under Life, News • 
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