• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    I’ve not read the article (obvs) but my wife used to work with long term sick people and she had to quit in the end because there were so many people just gaming the system who clearly could work. She also told me a story about some guy who was terminally ill and had less than a year to live but he was being sent to work.

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      this is a big reason I like a citizens income. everyone who needs it. gets it. motivation is there to make more and youll eventually pay more in taxes than what you get but its should be so incremental there is no reason to try to min max your earnings vs benefits. its there the moment you need it. no paperwork or beuracracy because you get it regardless.

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      It’s so stupid.

      Like he’s trying to push literally bedridden people who are unable to speak into jobs?

      What’s gonna happen, they aren’t gonna get one because they have no fucking energy or way to apply, and then it’ll be blamed on them they aren’t trying hard enough.

      Starmer, the problem ain’t disabled people, it’s the massively wealthy.

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        Nobody will want to hire them!

        Yes, 100%. Labour don’t have either the courage or the comittment to the long term to defy the financial industry and build a new economy. More and more people simply have no productive role in the current economy because the UK economy has become too focussed on capital and they don’t have any. All governments that try to maintain the current economy are flogging a dead horse. It’s done. I disagreed with the the Liz Truss budget, but it proved that government is completely beholden the financial industry and that no meaningful change can happen without the current UK economy being crashed. I think that the UK economy now has to crash and be reconstructed in a better form, which is what happened after the the great depression and second world war. Either that or we just carry on like we are and continue to slowly fade away into being a poor country.

        • Nester@feddit.uk
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          No positive change happened as a result of 2008, and I doubt any change will happen if there was an equal or even greater crash now.

          The only way change will happen is if people demand it. The collective trauma of WW2 was enough to bring about change almost as if the populous went “That was shit, now we deserve something better”. That, and the fear of communist thought taking hold pushed the governing class to action.