> This means, that I can also do something with my family during the week
I don't doubt that such models help in the respective employment.
But this is by no means comparable with a common day of repose. First of all, it doesn' help if I have a free day: my friends don't. My children, adult and employed, neither have, and their children have to go to school. The streets are crowded and there is a rush hour as usual.
As long as you're young your perception will perhaps be different. But when we had the lockdowns here (though in general I wasn't fond of them), life got in some way a different, a better quality with respect to the feeling of what a day was like.
And by the way: On the other hand, we already have many exceptions from the so called work-free Sundays: The regular ones, such as petrol stations, police, firefighters, shift workers, hospitals and emergency services. And the exemptions like 'sales-Sundays', fairs, markets of many kind and many other things.
To be clear: I am not politically driven in that matter.
I am, as many others, in a way driven by an increasing exhaustion because everything around us gets more and more mercilessly geared towards economization, profit and doing business. Hundreds of planes fly over our villages during the day (quite low because we are only a 4-minute flight from Frankfurt airport), night flights get more and more permits, there are increasingly more and more trucks on the streets even on Sundays (all 'exceptions'), and basically there is hardly any opportunity to shape your life without all this hustle and bustle.
In a country with 240 people per square kilometer, and this is of course very different from e.g. Australia, you experience all that, including the noise it creates, quite intensely. I think that exhausts people. We have never had so many illnesses, burnouts and suicides, and I believe that this also has something to do with the total economic 'permanent optimization' of our existence. It keeps squeezing you.
Quite apart from that: What, apart from police and infrastructure, can I buy or deliver or work on a Sunday that I couldn't do any other day ?
I know that young people have different priorities than older people. And I was younger once and was just like that.
But now I am older.