Is 2 week vacation enough?

Is 2 week vacation enough for us who are working in America? It defintely is not enough for me, for sure.

I recently had a chat with some folks from europe and our conversation went towards vacation time here in america. Most of them had atleast a month paid vacation per year when they were working back in europe! And they complained about the vacation time here.

I think there is a strong point here, people here work real hard whole year and they only get 2 week vacation. I don't think with 2 week vacation you can relax and clear things from your mind to start everything fresh after vacation.

I personally think that not taking real vacation is some thing that has some serious effect mentally and physically, especially for people who are in software industry.

In general, here in america, people tend to not take enough vacation compared to any other place.

A lot of people i talked say they don't have time for it!

The main reason to work hard and make money is to have a nice life, if you don't have time to take some time off from your work to relax then doesn't that defeat the purpose?