It's already started on CUK!

[Mich the Tester]

As UKIP are older and pre over generous welfare state I suggest UKIP support is likely to increase. I would suspect Labour should be worried if they could actually get the welfare class to vote.

Wasn't the welfare state actually at its most generous in the 60s and 70s before 'maggiefatchah' came along?

[SunnyInHades]

An alternative theory (100,000 years)

[speling bee]

An alternative theory (100,000 years)

So testers are actually in the vanguard of evolution?

[vetran]

Wasn't the welfare state actually at its most generous in the 60s and 70s before 'maggiefatchah' came along?

not really against GDP the claimant count changed and what it has been spent on has changed.

http://www.ifs.org.uk/bns/bn13.pdf

[Mich the Tester]

So testers are actually in the vanguard of evolution?

Since when was MF a tester?

[alreadypacked]

I was reading "10 Reasons You Have To Quit Your Job In 2014"
One thing rang very true "The middle class is being hollowed out"

When you look at what you have planned for your pension, you need to be in the upper class, not the under class.


10 Reasons You Have To Quit Your Job In 2014 | LinkedIn

[OwlHoot]

I think that's a valid concern - professional women are now often leaving it later to have children, meaning they're more likely to have fewer children and/or fertility problems. If one makes the assumption that professional generally equates to more intelligence/motivation, then society will be come bottom heavy in a couple of generations.

At the present rate of progress, in a couple of generations hardly anyone will be in any meaningful employment, professional or otherwise.

God knows how society will then decide who gets what, maybe some rotation system combined with a lottery, or an advanced rep system.

[OwlHoot]

So testers are actually in the vanguard of evolution?

Sasguru will be furious to hear himself described as a tester.

He's a pharma consultant, if you don't mind.

[Halo Jones]

BBC NEWS | UK | Human species 'may split in two'

Judging by the 'good contractor' threads.

That article is dated 2006: anything more recent?

[OwlHoot]

That article is dated 2006: anything more recent?

This one looks quite interesting

I don't buy the idea of everyone "converging to the same coffee colour", much as that might appeal to those trying to encourage racial harmony, because before long parents will be able to opt for all kinds of (legally allowed) genes for their offspring including any skin colour and possibly novel capabilities like lungs that work in air or water etc.

Eventually even gene choices will become less relevant, as people will probably be able change their characteristics temporarily "on the hoof", for example acquiring black skin for a month or two while visiting Africa on holiday and later changing it back after they return.