We can make a four-day workweek happen if we want

Back when I entered the workforce in 1998, my ad agency introduced the concept of “Summer Fridays” to me for the first time. You might assume, given the work that they produce for the viewing public, that folks in the advertising industry don’t work terribly hard. This is incorrect. Every god-awful TV ad you’ve ever seen can take an obscene number of all-nighters and conference calls with clients in Topeka. Yes, the end result is Lizzo and a talking dog selling you a crypto exchange app named PHNTM, but many people behind the scenes did indeed put in hours, many of them, to bring that masterpiece to your restless eyeballs.

So, as a little treat, us plebes were treated to every Friday off between Memorial Day and Labor Day. I cherished my Summer Fridays. One time I used them to decamp to a filthy timeshare out on the Jersey Shore with my wife. We slept on a bed that had no frame. One night I got so drunk that I threw up onto the mattress and it came out all black. I might have turned into Venom for a moment. It was awesome.

And now, many years after my Summer Friday heyday, a band of California lawmakers have introduced legislation at both the state and federal level to make every Friday a Summer Friday. All year long. That’s right people, we’re talking about the holy grail of the American workforce: the four-day workweek. Take it away, Rep. Mark Takano: