Interesting comment that you think benefits should be much higher…I work with many people who are on benefits and are quite literally trapped by the system. By that I mean that even when they do get a job, if it’s minimum wage or part time, they are better off staying on jobseekers or an invilidity benefit where they could retrain in a different job. There is no incentive to work and be a contributer to society when you are better off being a drain. I know this sounds bleak but it’s real and it’s what I see everyday. Very frusrating. You can’t make a classless, equal society by simply giving people money – there is no sense of self worth in that and certainly no prospects, or hope of anything better for the future.
