The evils of socialism ???

Oh dear, where do I start !!

As with all hyperbola there is a measure of truth in this rant but the "seed of truth", disguises the woolly headiness behind the general argument.

Yes we have reached a stage where the numbers don't add up and there has grown a dependency culture based on welfare. This has to be addressed and will cause some people much pain but it has to be done, not only for the general good but for the good of the individual.

When I came to the UK from SA, things didn't turn out as I had expected.  I was out of a job. I could have turned to the state for help (I never considered it) but instead I went looking for work. 

I found a cleaning job from 3am until 7am (I had to get out of bed at 2.15 six days a week) I then drove down to London to work from 8.15 until 5.00pm returning to Bishop's Stortford at 6.30pm, about 16 hours a day.   I often pulled off the road to cat nap before starting the second job. I also had a job, cleaning in a Tesco warehouse. I worked for 16 hours a day, and because I didn't have sufficient time to drive home and back, I slept in a tiny "cleaners cupboard" amongst the mops and buckets and only went home one day a week. 

This is extreme I know but it exemplifies the other end of the spectrum from the welfare culture !

The issue for the writer seems to be "socialism". Socialism is the root cause of the problem by creating a fall-back for the disadvantaged. How can it be that people don't have the savvy to get on their bike to find work. Why do we have to be concerned with "others" when we have so much to do, "to earn", "to compete" and "compare the spoils" !!

Of course it is completely unhealthy that there are people, many of them young who do not know what it is like to work, even the thought repels them. 

Work of course comes in many guises. White collar work is more comfortable than blue collar work. What can be classed as blue collar work can be very dull or very energy consuming (hard work), it can also be poorly paid and the employee exposed to the whim of the employer. Maybe that is how it should be, market forces would certainly say it should, but surely the human condition should be seen as more than the sum total of "a unit of production". 

Socialism does not believe in the infaliability of "market forces", rather the opposite, we currently see the result unfettered capitalism, the massive gulf that has opened up between the wealthy and the rest. 

Socialism acts to soften the inequality and bring a measure of fairness to the labour market. It plans the economy in response to the needs of the people and not for the explicit benefit of a few.

What we have now is the phenomenon that people are the potential weakness  to any "planning" that others, with high ideals might make on their behalf.