Mentioned this in passing yesterday, but it certainly bears repeating that those of us in the developed world enjoy a great many more freedoms than other people do: As an example, the freedom to work at any trade we choose. No central planning for us! This assumes, of course, that we can actually find work in our chosen trade, because if we can't, we have the freedom to be unemployed. Not to mention the freedom to be deliberately impoverished as a matter of policy by our own governments:
An additional 900,000 people were plunged into poverty during the first year of the coalition government, including 300,000 more children, according to official figures.---Baron VCharities pointed out that the entire increase in children counted as in poverty in 2011-12 came from working households. Children living below the poverty line were now twice as likely to come from working families than those without employment.
The situation is likely to get worse, say charities, because the statistics covered the period before a range of austerity measures and welfare cuts---including the bedroom tax and the abolition of council tax benefit---were introduced.
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