The "catastrophic " healthcare subsides all other healthcares around the world - 99% of new drugs and medical equipment are first introduced in the US. After the US market pays to big degree for the R&D, the rest of the world gets em far cheaply.
The lack of universal healthcare is a major factor pushing people in US to work harder. Hard work = Uber, FB, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
The schedule thing sounds like a fair deal, if you allow human input the people with "people skills" will benefit at the expense of those that are socially awkward.
Travel can be extremely cheap nowadays, e.g. budget airlines on weekdays, last minute deals from the big tour operators. Working one 10 hour day a week will allow for way more travel than 4x the money on a 4 or 5 days work week.
Last year I had a consulting gig in a Europe based company, with offices next to a big airport. As summer was slow anyway I'd work 30h weeks (invoicing four 7.5 hour work days) Tuesday - Thursday, and spend the other 4 days at a beach in Ibiza, Bulgaria or Cape Verde (with occasional remote login to take care of emergencies).
But in practice, I guess this legacy architecture adds a nanosecond or two to a thread switch. Is that a big deal? How many switches does a desktop PC do in a second? How about an AWS/Azure/GCP server?
I've never experienced lag in a game or app or web server due to slow thread switch. Server side async is on the rise anyway, minimizing number of threads and switches.
The "catastrophic " healthcare subsides all other healthcares around the world - 99% of new drugs and medical equipment are first introduced in the US. After the US market pays to big degree for the R&D, the rest of the world gets em far cheaply.
The lack of universal healthcare is a major factor pushing people in US to work harder. Hard work = Uber, FB, Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.