It was the same idea as Nixon's Monday holidays, where real events were celebrated on phony days just so the union scum could have their three-day weekends, and the globalists would avoid their hangover absenteeism, circumventing the associated losses.
“It was a signal to licence. To cheap ease. To doing things the easy way. To getting your way NOW without waiting.”
LOL. It freed us from sitting idly in obedience to a non-thinking machine.