I've owned my own business. . . . If you own your business, it is nearly impossible to take a vacation or work only forty hours a week. There's never enough money to pay the bills, never enough time to do all the work. So owners work overtime and go without vacations. Even so, most businesses fail.
Owners live in a world of scarcity.
Given the opportunity, they'd have their employees work long hours and go without vacations until the owner stopped worrying, whenever that might be. That's why I'm sympathetic to the unions' version of history. When I owned my own business, I'd work fifty and sixty hours a week. Then I'd drive home, madly begin to pack. Only then would I start planning where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do. . . .