Odd how two far-left publications are pushing a (frankly completely stupid and redundant) argument calling the 7 day week tyrannical and then pushing a system that is actually tyrannical. Imagine each year having the exact same days/dates. Every 14th would be a Thursday every year for eternity. This is the need to control every aspect of peoples lives. Well and of course the destruction of the Christian week per the Bible.
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You mean every 12th. And every month has a Friday the 13th.
And the Cotsworth Calendar is actually cool and we should totally adopt it. Here's how it works:
There are 13 months of exactly 28 days. At the end of the year there are one or two leap days that operate on the Gregorian system. The leap days are considered to be part of a "14th" month that is generally treated as a holiday, and/or lumped into the preceding month for purposes of billing.
From an accounting and scheduling perspective it would be much simpler to have fixed length months with a holiday leap. It would eliminate the "three check month" phenomena that hits most employees roughly quarterly, where the difference between biweekly pay and monthly bills results in a sudden jump or drop in cash on hand.
Which is completely manageable by anyone who isn’t a complete moron. It is actually easier for a worker to have seven day weeks than no monthly pay because there are a set weeks per year versus days per year. The new system would be used to justify cuts in pay periods to a bimonthly system for workers. This system also would, more importantly, be used to completely wipe current holidays off the map. This is a communist wet dream.
Yes, and?
Do I need to give you the "it's a feature, not a bug" speech?
What's your issue with holidays? Tradition is something that means a lot to people. Special events give you excitement and good memories/feelings, things to look forward to, etc. They are a much needed change of pace.
Because by and large they were hijacked by brazen consumerism decades ago.
Better to end the public observance, give people a month of personal holiday each year, and let the people who actually do give a shit about this or that holiday celebrate as they will.
I'm Quaker. Holidays kinda aren't a thing for us.