The frustrating part about living in America is that the solutions to problems are not only known, they're achievable. Yet because of a combination of stupidity amongst regular people and corruption amongst officials, people continue to suffer needlessly. There isn't a single thing in this article that wouldn't work if adopted in America, especially taxing the rich and having mandated time off. Yet it's not just the people that run the oligopoly that are understandably against such changes for the better, but also the average poor American who votes for the representative that is guaranteed to make life worse, not better for regular people.