F*** WORK

[Okeefenokee]

It's now possible to actually write DNA, which could bring an iconic Ice Age herbivore back to life.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017 ... -genetics/

All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.

[DBTrek]

According to the Department of Labor, America now has 5.6 million job openings.

Forget your politics for a moment, and consider the enormity of what’s happening here. Millions of people who have stopped looking for work, are ignoring 5.6 million genuine opportunities. That’s not a polemic, or a judgment, or an opinion. It’s a fact. And so is this: most of those 5.6 million opportunities don’t require a diploma – they require a skill.

http://mikerowe.com/2016/02/stopignoringskillsgap/

Millions of people out of work - millions of job openings available . . . and folks still have the audacity to be like "Damn, shit is rough, we need UBI to maintain, you know?!?"
Yet another fact to be dismissed as a deflection or nothing by free money fanatics.

[DBTrek]

Americans often are told that the current welfare system does not promote long-term dependence. This also is untrue.

• * The 4.7 million families currently receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) already have spent, on average, six-and-a-half years on welfare.
  * When past and estimated future receipts of AFDC are combined, the estimated average length of stay on AFDC, among those families currently receiving benefits, is 13 years.
  * Among the 4.7 million families currently receiving AFDC, over 90 percent will spend over two years on the AFDC caseload. More than 75 percent will spend over five years on AFDC.

It is welfare dependence, not poverty, that has the most negative effect on children. Recent research by Congressional Budget Office Director June O'Neill shows that increasing the length of time a child spends on welfare may reduce the child's IQ by as much as 20 percent.

Welfare dependency as a child has a negative effect on the earnings and employment capacity of young men. The more welfare income received by a boy's family during his childhood, the lower the boy's earnings will be as an adult, even when compared to boys in families with identical non-welfare income.

Welfare also plays a powerful role in promoting illegitimacy. Research by CBO Director O'Neill also shows, for example, that a 50 percent increase in monthly AFDC and food stamp benefit levels will cause a 43 percent increase in the number of illegitimate births within a state. Illegitimacy, in turn, has an enormous negative effect on children's development and on their behavior as adults. Being born outside of marriage and raised in single parent homes:

• * Triples the level of behavioral and emotional problems among children;
  * Nearly triples the level of teen sexual activity;
  * Doubles the probability a young woman will have children out of wedlock; and,
  * Doubles the probability a boy will become a threat to society, engage in criminal activity, and wind up in jail.

http://www.heritage.org/welfare/report/ ... harms-kids

Wow, government "taking care" of people sounds really awesome, I can see why we'd like to expand that to everybody. Look at all those positive benefits. Look at the explosion in innovation and creativity.

More deflections and nothings to ponder.

[pineapplemike]

I agree with OP, fuck work

[Speaker to Animals]

None of that is relevant to our discussion, DB. We are talking about the future, not today. You're all over the place and you absolutely refuse to address a single point made by anybody. You just insult people and throw irrelevant information that has nothing to do with the topic.

[DBTrek]

You anticipate the negative psychological effects and devastating damage done to nuclear families by government dependence to change in the future?

If not, then I'd say it's relevant.

(But it doesn't fall in line with your dogma, so I see how you'd find facts to be completely irrelevant, especially when your entire argument is based on a narrow and completely speculative "future" that only you can dictate)

[Speaker to Animals]

The what?

You really are on drugs.

[DBTrek]

Profound.
I can see why you've convinced so many here with your insight.

[Speaker to Animals]

I am just wondering if you are intentionally acting like a manic drug addict as a joke and actually have something to argue and contribute forthcoming, or if you are legitimately about to break down.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Med free, unlike 70% of the rest of you.
Might explain why I can understand simple sentences and refute obvious boondoggles while so many here are struggling.
Maybe get yourself off your own pharmaceutical crutches and see if it helps any.

I have none to get rid of, other than the 'tines.

Your behavior is dramatically different than last week tho.