Seen on reddit. Someone asked: "What happens after the welfare cuts? I feel this has not been thought through properly. There are currently over 1.6 million people actively looking for work, and around 736,000 jobs available."
Another redditor responded: "*I work in a job centre.
We are openly told by line managers there is no plan. The reforms will mean many people lose out directly (their PIP is cut), but also indirectly (carers of people with PIP are entitled to an additional rate on UC).
The main things we are being trained for is an increase in 6PP situations (suicidal claimants) and additional training on managing those with severe health conditions whilst on UC.
The Work Capability Assessment system is expected to totally collapse immediately after the reforms are implemented due to demand as people denied PIP scramble to get LCWRA classification.
Even the harshest people on my team see it as a disasterous act of cruelty, as someone put it "saying the quiet part out loud."*
What is the government hoping will happen? There aren't enough jobs already. Do they hope everyone just kills themselves? Or turns to crime like mugging and shoplifting?
No wonder the UK is the second most miserable country on earth: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/latest-updates/uk-is-officially-the-worlds-second-most-miserable-country-these-were-the-happiest-and-unhappiest-countries-of-2023/articleshow/108361220.cms?from=mdr
Cut to disabilities while legalizing assisted suicide? IT'S A EUGENICS PROGRAM FOR FUCKS SAKE! God damn useless handwringing shitlibs everywhere.
capitalist societies offer us the “right to die” or the “right to die with dignity” as a warm fuzzy little send off as they hurry us to the door
too many people think that’s a great deal because they’ve seen enough real life to understand that just letting nature take its course is often not very dignified. and the fact is that we tend to take on bourgeois attitudes without asking ourselves who really benefits from this idea that human life should be disposed of once it becomes more trouble than it’s worth. caring for others is a burden by default. so an elder or terminally ill loved one will be seen a thankless chore and nobody wants to be that, so we think this right to die is sooo neat. we can’t wait to die with dignity.
i wonder why we never demand dignity for when we’re alive. wouldn’t that be nice? we are Marxists but we don’t think we can demand the best quality palliative care so we can live out the end of our lives in comfort, spending time with our loved ones? as long as we are alive we can continue to connect - that is why we live and it’s why we want to live.
we are expected to believe we’ve got 2 choices - suffering or death. there is another choice - what is the point of being a Marxist if you can’t imagine a society where life doesn’t suck so hard that we just want to get it over with? what if we wanted to stick around as long as we can because we like it here?
we can ask for that. we should all get that.