I assume you meant good things, not things like Brexit.
Free orange juice. Decades of free health care. Bus pass.
But then I vote for politicians who want to change other people's lives for the better. And frankly that seems to be where we differ. You're a capitalist dream, motivated entirely by self-interest, with not even a Protestant work ethic as a redemptive feature.
Come into the light, brother.
If free orange juice makes it on to the top 3 life changing things a politician had done for you then you really have had a harder up bringing than my humble one.
As a working class kid, brought up in a terraced house, outside loo, no father figure, shit school, few qualifications at the time, etc, who yes, has come good, it pains me as to how many kids actually go on to accept their lot in life , the Protestant work ethic as you call it. Others will call it the blame game , every one else’s fault but their own. Strangely the middle classes never seem to adopt this stance which always gives them a head start over woe is me.
We don’t live in a Utopia, where everything is fair, never will, we have to accept certain responsibilities and stand on our own two feet rather than keep saying it’s always some one else’s fault.
There was a very good book written in the 1970’s called Economics Of The Real World. In it the Author goes on to explain how the Economy would work if we returned to day 1 and re distributed the Country’s wealth evenly.
Human nature would take over, some would spend it on drink, others would supply the drink to them at a profit etc and very quickly literally within weeks, the Country would take on a similar pattern as we have at the moment.
The point I am making is we are all different and always will be. We all have to get on with our lives despite the shit that gets thrown at us.
Society should be there to help the most vulnerable and those who cannot help themselves , nobody would argue with that.
In a Facebook website called Stockport Memories last week there was a woman complaining about the state of what is known locally as the bear pit. It’s in the Town Centre and about the size of the Centre Circle on a football field
It wasn’t kept like it used to be as there were weeds growing and it wasn’t being swept. Guess whose fault it was .. The Governments. What was even more surprising was the amount of posters who agreed with her and gave her loads of likes.
With those sort of attitudes, that it is always someone else’s fault there is no incentive to ever do anything to help oneself to do better and many just end up in a rut for long periods of their lives.
