Bailey Quarters was the Mary Ann to Loni’s Jennifer/Ginger. WKRP was one of my favorite shows and I would have chosen Bailey over Jennifer in a heartbeat.

Bullshit. I believe in reasonable pay for a day’s work, with benefits, and healthcare. I don’t believe people have a “right” to do nothing and get supported by society. Hopefully someday we’ll live in a post-scarcity world and everyone can do what they want. If people want to waste their lives doing nothing then - great. But we don’t live in that world now. Generating wealth requires effort. That wealth should be fairly shared - yes. It’s not today - I agree. I should be. But the people who are able-bodied and decide to do literally nothing useful? Tough shit.

If it’s your opinion that people ought not be expected to actually be productive and support themselves - that’s your opinion and you’re welcome to it. It’s not mine. And I’m fine with eating the downvotes on that.

This is too much letting these sedentary men off the hook. Sure, it’s true that it’s hard to motivate to work hard when you know you’re getting exploited and will barely scrape by - so why bother? I get it. But it’s not all someone else’s fault. The author being interviewed in the link is saying it’s more than that - this phenomenon can’t be explained by economics and market forces alone. It transcends job availability and wages. He’s saying that - at least for certain types of men - once a he is out of the workforce for awhile, he won’t come back even when there ARE good opportunities for good jobs. They will check out, and stay checked out - regardless. They will simply choose to mooch off the rest of the world for life. Sorry, America is far from the perfect land of opportunity, but I don’t sympathize with those guys.

And in the meantime the world invented man-made diamonds and doesn't need to you anymore, and you stay buried forever. The end.

I got a few apples as a kid, and they definitely just ended up getting chucked at something, often the house the gave them out.