[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Jack_

yes it's so much easier now! Much easier to get on the housing market before the age of 25, much easier to graduate and go into full time employment immediately, much easier to acquire a stable, secure job with employment rights, much easier to be supported if you're struggling to make ends meet, the list goes on.

It's oh so very easy to throw clichéd remarks like 'get out there and earn a living' around but not everyone is afforded an equal opportunity to do so.

Does your mother wash your clothes in a wash house in a dolly tub,do you have to go outside to the toilet,do you have coats on the bed to keep you warm,do you bath in a tin bath by the fireside,do you have limited food stuffs? answer ,NO,(no offence meant by those things Sam,lol) You have far more today than you've ever had, nothing is impossible if you really want it. but you have to help yourself a little sometimes,yes it might be a struggle but perseverance will get you far.

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

Does your mother wash your clothes in a wash house in a dolly tub,do you have to go outside to the toilet,do you have coats on the bed to keep you warm,do you bath in a tin bath by the fireside,do you have limited food stuffs? answer ,NO,(no offence meant by those things Sam,lol) You have far more today than you've ever had, nothing is impossible if you really want it. but you have to help yourself a little sometimes,yes it might be a struggle but perseverance will get you far.

Well I don't have to do any of that, but struggling to heat one's home and having limited food are still very much a reality for many people today. Difference is, just because I'm lucky enough that it doesn't affect me personally it doesn't mean I don't care.

Just because we've had some technological advances and new definitions of poverty have come to fruition, it doesn't mean that tired rhetoric and meritocratic fallacies about 'putting the work in' and 'anything is achievable' can solve some deep rooted societal problems. Some people are seriously lacking in opportunity for reasons beyond their control, and unless they are provided with one, they are destined for a life on the poverty line and unjustified abuse for being a 'scrounger'. Problems need solutions, not sayings.