An article from VOX that lends support to the lament of "Why Liberalism Failed".
Even beyond the service sector, more and more white-collar workers are having their time invaded by emails, Slack messages, and other work responsibilities. A generalized law restricting the ability of nonessential businesses from functioning one day a week would go a long way to protect workers from the creeping commodification of every second of their time. Put bluntly, it would make sense to legally interdict the ability of your boss to expect you to respond to an email on Sunday morning."Creeping" or "crept"? For knowledge workers, it is more the rule than the exception to be available 24x7 by text, phone, etc when your boss / customers / clients / etc "need you".
I was always struck when I went to England or Germany on business how difficult it was to purchase ANYTHING ( gifts for back home, food, office supplies" after "5" or on Sunday.
It turns out that the Sabbath was made for man ... (Mark 2:27) "Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.""
VOX seems to have figured this out all on their own! Apparently man does not live by "bread" alone (as the hippies called MONEY) while modern man has been converted into pure econoimic man ... a "consumer" rather than a "citizen", let alone a PERSON.
Perhaps even the left is beginning to see glimmers of the obvious fault in making humans one dimensional!
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