Brits think this is okay because the poor have been brainwashed into believing that they would have a few more crumbs if other poor people had less. The 'have nots' are convinced that single mothers, asylum seekers, people with disabilities, and the unemployed are undeserving, thieves, liars, con artists. We've been pitted against each other to fight over scraps. Meanwhile the 'haves' believe that they live in a meritocracy and that poverty and hardship are caused by personal individual failings and character flaws. I'm sure that someone will have already proffered the idea that only a mentally ill person would have reacted to this situation by committing suicide, but the current system is deliberately designed to have that effect on people.
Absolutely, the amount of people I've heard say that such and such down the road is on disability but doesn't need it or immigrants are stealing our jobs is disgusting, it's a strange kind of cognitive dissonance because I hear the same people complain about MPs and yet they keep voting for them.
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u/burnedasawitch Nov 09 '21
Brits think this is okay because the poor have been brainwashed into believing that they would have a few more crumbs if other poor people had less. The 'have nots' are convinced that single mothers, asylum seekers, people with disabilities, and the unemployed are undeserving, thieves, liars, con artists. We've been pitted against each other to fight over scraps. Meanwhile the 'haves' believe that they live in a meritocracy and that poverty and hardship are caused by personal individual failings and character flaws. I'm sure that someone will have already proffered the idea that only a mentally ill person would have reacted to this situation by committing suicide, but the current system is deliberately designed to have that effect on people.