If we want something to “Memorialize” this coming weekend, buddy do we have the shiznit for ya’ll.  America hasn’t just lost it to China in major industrial categories (shipbuilding comes to mind) but the “rest of world” is kicking our “short of vacation” butts.

U.S. Baseline: The U.S. has no federal mandate for paid vacation or public holidays. The average PTO (personal time off) is estimated at 10–15 days (10 vacation days after 1 year, increasing with tenure, plus some employer-provided holidays).

No, friend, the place you want to work is either Kuwait (43 paid days off per year) or (OMG) Russia!!!  Why those rotten-bad-nasty commies are getting a national minimum of 24 vacation days plus 8 federal holidays. None of which counts weekends!  And we’re demonizing them?

And why have US workers “busted-hump” to fund NATO?  When All EU member states mandate at least 20 paid vacation days, often supplemented by public holidays, making most European countries rank above the U.S…

Back on script:  Today we explore the earlier times in ‘Merica – back in the Land of the Free days – when we invented the Autocamping category in the 1920s..

But first, is Inflation going to Save us?

And saving the worst for last?  Our ChartPack this morning is the most dire I have written in more than 20-years.

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This is where we look ahead and size up what we can about next week.  Because while the past is full of interesting ideas, those have already “locked” into history.  What seems like it would be more useful would be an in-depth summary of things that will likely impact us (large and small) before they get here.  Thus, giving us a chance to plan around them while there’s time…

First, though, a crater impact survey as the US Dollar is about to get the “Moody’s blues…”

Of course, the usual Saturday fare is served as well: A few “locked” headlines and the ChartPack which reveals how this pig of a market is doing almost unspeakable things.  At least, things not normally observed in the modern times.

For us, this is a nearly ideal weekend to work on a broader topic; PLM or Personal Life Management.  It will be a kind of mini-focus for the weekend.

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World has to run a “gauntlet” between now and 2050 as we explained last week.  Now, we need to inspect how that choice is laying out in more detail.  With the hope that by doing so, we will see where the “muddle-through” might be found.  Turns out the pivot-point may be the shelf life and skills required from humans. Dopamine-driven dopes.

We focus, therefore on the declines of pleasure and purpose then explore how that, too, blows up sooner than not if we don’t do something about it.

And it’s here the “threading needle of figure problem” comes into view.

A few headlines to warm the neurons and then the ChartPack for the visual cortex.  But then we’re into “the heart stuff” where the purpose of humans in a machine-dominated world begins to glaze over…

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You may not have time for 50+ pages of last-minute checklist and thinking notes… So it will be available in the Peoplenomics Bookshelf part of the Master Index.  And sorry, don’t mean to sound cavalier or too cynical, but we’re in that kind of world now.  Notice?

Also for your breakfatudinal (zat a word?) munch reading, the chart pack is a dilly today, too.  (Say, ever have a dill with Saturday breakfast? (Without a beer?)

And if that doesn’t leave you “in a pickle,” some of the morning’s headline analysis may land you on the shrink’s couch before lunch.

“‘The Peoplenomics Survival Planner (The Last-Minute Prepper’s Pre-War Edition) is a useful guide focused on practical self-sufficiency for uncertain times, covering three critical areas: quick survival foods that can be grown rapidly (like sprouts and microgreens), long-term survival gardening with calorie-dense and diverse crops (like potatoes, beans, and squash), and high-value cash crops for crisis barter (such as hemp, tobacco, and garlic).

 It also provides detailed herbal home remedies for common health issues, a step-by-step immediate action plan for preparedness, a family-sized shopping list, practical home defense strategies for two people, essential survival knife selection, and a guide to emergency communications, offering a complete blueprint for resilient, sustainable living in crisis scenarios.” 50-odd pages of PDF.

Second cup, Glaucon! . As we ponder deeper meanings of The Republic (ch.10). Allegorically, of course.

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