It doesn’t sound like much, but if you are getting free housing and health care..it goes a long way.
“It doesn’t sound like much, but if you are getting free housing and health care..it goes a long way.”
Obviously it was enough for them to choose to not work.
You figure you get 4 people in a flat paid for by the council, each pulling in 67.50 pounds a week, that’s 14,000 pounds a year for that “household” with no rent, no utilities, and no insurance.
Why? Because they exist.
This is the last verse of Rudyard Kipling’s “Gods of the Copybook Heading” written in 1919:
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!