https://www.bls.gov/charts/employee-benefits/paid-leave-sick...

Could be better for sure, but a graph showing the US as having 0 days of paid days off because the federal government doesn't mandate anything is misleading at best. Average US worker after 1 year of employment earns 7 sick days and 11 vacation days. And likely has some state and federal holidays off as well, and could very well qualify for state required PTO and sick time. But that doesn't get clicks and attention.

More data, if one is curious:

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ebs2.t06.htm

I've never worked at a job that didn't offer some form of PTO, only exception is when you are doing contract work and not a full time employee, you simply take time off when the rest of the company does for no pay during those windows of time.

Shameful? The country that invented transistors and the internet is getting roasted by people who need 40 days off just to recover from existing.

Work is a privilege.