Saturday, August 27, 2011

Depraved but not deprived

Mark Steyn: Depraved but not deprived non, class, state - Opinion - The Orange County Register
A genial Member of Parliament argued that the real issue underlying the riots is "education and jobs," but large numbers of employers seem to have concluded that, if you've got a job to offer, the best person to give it to is someone with the least exposure to a British education......

The problem for the Western world is that it has incentivized nonproductivity on an industrial scale.
For large numbers at the lower end of the spectrum (still quaintly referred to by British reporters as "working class") the ritual of work – of lifetime employment as a normal feature of life – has been all but bred out by multigenerational dependency.

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