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Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter
people are on foodstamps because they cant function properly in society, not because there is a food shortage.
bringing up these kinds of arguments always ruins it. go look at the facts people.
nearly 50% of Americans contribute ZERO in taxes, and these people still get to vote?
thats just insane.. if ya' dont pay your share, no way in hell you should get any say in spending.
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You completely miss the point. Regardless of WHY they are on food stamps, we are PAYING to feed them. And we are also destroying food so it costs us as taxpayers more money to feed those same people. We are raising the price on ourselves artificially.
Now go a step further, why are 15% of the people in our country unwilling or unable to feed themselves and what should we do with them? I'd agree a percentage of our population is simply incompetent (even in boom years of the economy), but that number historically is nowhere near 15%... so at least some of those people are capable of producing.
I'll give you a hint: Most people have not figured out that we can now produce more than we need to consume with less labor than we can supply. In other words, it doesn't take 300M people to make everything we need and more people do not necessarily produce more than less people. That fact will only become more severe as technology continues to improve at an increasingly rapid pace.
100 years from now unemployment will easily be 30%+ no matter what anyone does short of creating 'fake jobs' or orchestrating a massive plague. What do we do with competent people capable of producing who society no longer needs to move forward at peak capacity overall?
Having a home, food, internet access, public transport etc will all be FREE. Living a very basic but comfortable lifestyle will require zero work. The people who work will be doing it solely for luxuries (a nicer house, car, jewelry, travel, etc...) If you think all of that sounds unfair, stop inventing things that replace thousands of workers and reduce costs or increase durability.
The best thing that can immediately be done to alleviate unemployment is implementing a 4 day 28 hour work week. Take a look at the book The End Of Work which predicted all of this around 20 years ago thanks to plain and simple economic data.
