Quote Originally Posted by Joker View Post
There are 14 applicants for every job at the moment, do you really think that unemployment is because people are "sitting on their arse" and not being bothered to work? The free market requires unemployed workers, so that wages can be kept low and workers can be kept in check, so that if they wish to speak out against exploitation, the firm can threaten to fire him and hire one of the huge army of unemployed workers desperate for a job. You seem to have swallowed the government's line about the unemployed hook, line and sinker.
I haven't swallowed anything, not even the Socialist Workers manifesto. I don't for a second believe every person out of a job is a layabout. What I do believe is that people who demand the distribution of wealth based on class hatred and some fucked up workers of the world utopian view that has never been realised are as badly misguided as it's possible to be. We've swung too far towards the rule of the rich, the correction required should not be absolute power for the envious.