Published on 12, July, 2020
Why do so many people have a sense of entitlement?
I was discussing this with a friend at the weekend and we couldn't really get to the bottom of it, other than perhaps it's just been a slow erosion of society and work ethic.
They don't work, but are entitled to (net) taxpayers money, so they can have things that taxpayers can't afford, to live in areas that those taxpayers can't afford, to have holidays, to not work a job they don't want to, to be entitled to an easy and well paid job. That they have "rights" that must be treated as gospel, but not any responsibilities that are tied to those rights. That rules are just for "someone else", a whole attitude that everyone else owes them a living etc.
What is the flawed mental process where people decide that they are entitled to things just because they want them? How can anyone even attempt to justify that "want" means "entitled"?
I don't think the sense of entitlement is only to those who do not work. I know many people (mostly living in London) who have embraced the culture of spending all of their money on numerous holidays and meals out trying to give the impression of wealth, whilst they constantly having to ask their parents for money if their car breaks or they need a deposit for a house. These are people in their mid to late thirties.
A lot of people I meet who are trapped in a cycle of living off benefits do this because they are scared of going back to work. They often have low self-esteem and believe they won't be able to cope.
NAS24859 said:A lot of people I meet who are trapped in a cycle of living off benefits do this because they are scared of going back to work.
If they are living off benefits but claiming they are unable to work isn't that benefit fraud?
I've never not worked since I was sixteen, I've done jobs I hated because I needed the money, I've worked hard long hours because I needed the money, never once have I felt entitled to sit back and live off of the taxpayer. If people are able to work and turn down jobs, or make themselves deliberately unemployable by their actions in interviews etc then I don't think they should have an entitlement to anything. If they have genuine disabilities then they need help, but they need to be genuine. Several times I've seen calls on here for anyone with an ASD diagnosis to get benefits automatically, but I have an ASD diagnosis and I don't see any reason why I should automatically get handed money because of that.
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They go to food banks too.
It will be workhouses back next. Cockroaches in the porridge. But after all, it is all about Victorian values.
If you didn't already know, there are more people claiming benefits and tax credits who are in work than out of work. Millions of hard working people rely on them to make ends meet because salaries are too low even to pay for basic necessities like housing and utility bills.
This suggests to me severe structural problems with the economy and employment rather than millions of people being lazy or greedy.
Yes they need to be genuine claims.
Is that why sick claimants have had heart attacks because of the stress on their interviews, or worse? Why individuals with months to live have been told to go get a job?
Why thousands have been dying since austerity measures have been introduced?
Or going hungry?