I like how they correctly identified how this is mostly caused by addiction, family breakdown, crime etc…..
And then just suggest wealth redistribution as a solution….
They just can’t help themselves……
“report argues that for many of the poorest people, “work is not worth it” as the financial rewards can be marginal.”
I’ve felt that a few years back. If you’re on min wage and living alone (by choice or not), you’re barely financially better off than in work, because if you’re not working you save on transport costs, dental costs and if you have any illnesses, you’re saving on prescription costs.
The extra money might not hit the threshold to actually afford anything new in your life, so it can seem like it’s not worth it. An extra £70 a month won’t be enough to ever save for a house, to save money up so you can go into education or do an apprenticeship, may not even be enough to go on holiday and if you don’t have close family, you don’t have anyone else to spend the money on either. You can do a cheap hobby at least, if your job and commute leave you much time (try commuting 3 hours a day to min wage work (have to take whatever job you can quickly get sometimes) in the countryside and having doing a hobby like a sport – you can do it, but it’ll slowly fuck you up). Only other thing I could think of to spend money on was eating at restaurants, but couldn’t do that due to a physical health problem. Always funny to have people on higher incomes or with lower outgoings ask oblivious questions like “why do you eat the same thing everyday?”, like they’re too thick to figure out that it’s cheaper to get nutrients that way…don’t get me started on the out of touch things some people born in the 60s-70s say.
During times you’re not working, you can get proper sleep, know you aren’t damaging your body (your health is as important a resource as money. Better to have little money and decent physical health, than little money and poor health) and you can do one or two at-home hobbies, if you’ve bought some equipment for it with the money you got from work.
This is happening globally. It is not being helped by 13 years of tory government. All they’ve done is ruin the country and exacerbate the divide.
I don’t have any faith that Labour will do much better. I’d be amazed if they managed to do any worse, though.
The decade with the lowest gap was the 1970s, which is why the Tories hate it and are constantly denigrating it.
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I like how they correctly identified how this is mostly caused by addiction, family breakdown, crime etc…..
And then just suggest wealth redistribution as a solution….
They just can’t help themselves……
“report argues that for many of the poorest people, “work is not worth it” as the financial rewards can be marginal.”
I’ve felt that a few years back. If you’re on min wage and living alone (by choice or not), you’re barely financially better off than in work, because if you’re not working you save on transport costs, dental costs and if you have any illnesses, you’re saving on prescription costs.
The extra money might not hit the threshold to actually afford anything new in your life, so it can seem like it’s not worth it. An extra £70 a month won’t be enough to ever save for a house, to save money up so you can go into education or do an apprenticeship, may not even be enough to go on holiday and if you don’t have close family, you don’t have anyone else to spend the money on either. You can do a cheap hobby at least, if your job and commute leave you much time (try commuting 3 hours a day to min wage work (have to take whatever job you can quickly get sometimes) in the countryside and having doing a hobby like a sport – you can do it, but it’ll slowly fuck you up). Only other thing I could think of to spend money on was eating at restaurants, but couldn’t do that due to a physical health problem. Always funny to have people on higher incomes or with lower outgoings ask oblivious questions like “why do you eat the same thing everyday?”, like they’re too thick to figure out that it’s cheaper to get nutrients that way…don’t get me started on the out of touch things some people born in the 60s-70s say.
During times you’re not working, you can get proper sleep, know you aren’t damaging your body (your health is as important a resource as money. Better to have little money and decent physical health, than little money and poor health) and you can do one or two at-home hobbies, if you’ve bought some equipment for it with the money you got from work.
This is happening globally. It is not being helped by 13 years of tory government. All they’ve done is ruin the country and exacerbate the divide.
I don’t have any faith that Labour will do much better. I’d be amazed if they managed to do any worse, though.
The decade with the lowest gap was the 1970s, which is why the Tories hate it and are constantly denigrating it.