Why am I not allowed to work part-time?

[ColdCaller]

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Most Western European Countries have: 4 week paid vacation guranteed by law, many more paid holidays than the U.S. workers, and most families can get by on only one income.

We have close to the same level of productivity/hour as them; why can't we have this as well!!

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Because that drives up unemployment.

[moorobot]

Not true. It actually decreases it, because less hours per job means more jobs total, given the same level of work available in the society.

But, even if you were right other policies can counter this: see my post in this thread with stats.