UK: Man who appeared on reality TV show “Benefits Street” dies in poverty

broken britain m8

Nice try Nick, this has been going on since 2010.

Didn't read, lol.

Whos that woman OP?

Just how disconnected from the world are you?

Iiniku Ushijima.

He obviously chose to die. If he didn't want to starve to death he could have just gotten off his lazy ass and got a job.

While I understand some socialist and left wing arguments about poverty I always think that sometimes having a benefit system you can basically live off of by pulling on people's heart strings makes for a lazy populace.

I've had people in my family who got married, shat out like 10 kids and just coasted on benefits for years, kicking the oldest child out of the nest the second they're too old to claim benefits for.

look at this guy

socialism =/= welfare state

welfare capitalism is a means of preserving capitalism

Welfare capitalism is retarded though, if people aren't working for their money then they're not generating any money and just taking money from people who would otherwise be socially mobile and able to become richer.

but it was a byproduct of populist uprisings in the 20th century. welfare pacified the masses enough to prevent further unrest.

but more importantly, most people on welfare already work.

half of the country doesn't pay income taxes. the money really doesnt come from blue collar workers who would be millionaires if it weren't for big gubment.

Saw a comment even better than this today spoken with full sincerity about another case -
"That one doesn't count, he was clearly a mentalist. It's not like we haven't got hundreds of food banks and soup kitchens."
If I make some money before the crash and these fuckers have a sudden change of heart I'll become a fucking AnCap.

Britain's a nation of mindless consumers, they need cash to prop up our retarded economy. I gave up trying to dress the argument up when I realised I was repeatedly trying to convince the unemployed and single mothers that the scrounger class was a work of media fiction. Turkeys and Christmas.

That is why an aggressive and extremely well funded campaign of propaganda and education is necessary to encourage people to become better citizens. Rather than punishing people and hoping the problem fixes itself, it makes much more sense to actively invest resources in fixing it directly.

At the moment the propaganda of capitalism is actually encouraging that kind of destructive behavior. Under the rules of capitalism, those people are "winning". They're getting money, they have a big family and a house. Capitalism encourages fucking other people over and wasting resources on luxuries.

Under socialism with a UBI people would be thinking in an entirely different framework. They wouldn't be valued by their wealth but by their contributions to the world. They would have the choice to avoid contributing anything, but the very fact it would be a choice would make people think twice about it. Education would be free and time would be plentiful. There would really be no reason at all not to master some talent or other.

Good luck getting Brits to vote for that, they've got their comfy narrative that blames everyone else and they'll stick with it until they're on the sharp end.

Yeah, Britain's fucked. It's going to be a slow and difficult road from where humanity is now to anything resembling a civilised society.