The leaders were a gang of thieves like Fagan in Oliver Twist. The leaders (the big thieves) taught the people how to be little thieves. It is always the same old thing.
Sure; that is why the “War on Poverty” created a permanently-dependent class that hasn’t seen a W-2 in generations...
What is helping to bring matters to a head here in the US is that this has spread to the descendants of the WASPs as well; we tolerated it when it was urban blacks, even the illegals, but now whites are in on the game. The gravy train has gone off the rails.
From my limited experience, I’d say 75% of children born today in the US (of all colors/ethnicities) are “golden ticket welfare bastards” conceived to provide a life of leisure for one or both parents.