Why are weeks five days long?
This little guy gets it. Two day weekends are not enough! Like Brodie, I would like to protest the five day week. I might want to have more time to play or, like Brodie, do whatever I want outside. The more I watched this pint-size plea, the more I wondered why weekends are relegated to two days. I realized many have already done a lot of the investigating so I didn't have to do much work. Blame Henry Ford Well, maybe don't blame him. Just know that in 1926 he decided his workers would have five eight-hour days on the job . He thought this would encourage workers to take vacations and go shopping on Saturdays. Ford was also paying his workers double the going rate ($5 a day) so once they had time off, they had time to spend their hard-earned money. "People who have more leisure must have more clothes. They eat a greater variety of food. They require more transportation in vehicles." Nearly 100 years later, after a global pandemic that forced a lot of people to work...