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Originally Posted by Omah

Yeah, people getting "batarsed" every weekend and then expecting the world to condone such behaviour and pay them buckets of money just for (mostly)turning up at the office/shop/factory, etc ..... well, not any more .....

Ah yes that's it, discredit some classic working class jobs in the process why don't you. As if they aren't already looked down upon already.

Why is it that people feel the need to go out and get wasted in the first place? Why are people seemingly so miserable that they feel the need to forget everything at the weekend by getting as intoxicated as possible? Perhaps if we as a society answer that question and provide a resolution to it, then we'd be in a much better state, no?

Here's a theory - perhaps the state of the economy, the increasing demonisation of the unemployed, low-skilled workers and the welfare dependant, as well as the rising gap between the rich and poor combined with those at the bottom of the social scale lacking the means to break out of the cycle - can explain antisocial behaviour and drug and alcohol problems? Maybe they're so ****ing fed up of being lambasted by those at the top that they rebel and/or turn to drink, drugs and crime as a coping method. Just an idea.

Or of course, maybe they're just feral alcoholic worthless degenerate rats that should be thrown to wolves...as the media would have you believe.