True but they're still not cheap to buy/subscribe to especially if you're living on government handouts and are potentially in a council house and may be jobless as well. A situation I bet you that a number of these kids families are in.
Easy, rather than spending the money the families are given for their daily necessities on their meters to support their lives they instead are putting a majority of it towards consumer goods such as electronics on multi payment plans/recurring credit card payments. I mean its not the first time it has happened and won't be last especially when you have people cheating the system to get multiple handouts such as one story from the news a couple years back about an older woman who somehow managed to get five applications through on the dole and had been living on those collective handouts for about 15 years before they caught her out.
I kinda implied that? How many phone subscriptions/mobile plans offer phones from ten years ago?
I'm not trying to discredit anything, I'm pointing out part of the problem is literally people spending that money on frivolous items instead of focusing on supporting their families. You don't need an iPhone X or iPad whatever it's at now to live or a 50" TV that you've been paying off for the last 2 years and a Netflix sub you can barely afford. Not to mention this isn't just happening with poor families, it also happens with uni students who get student loans and drop it on random junk rather than using it sensibly. People can't seem to spend sensibly across the classes. Not to mention I saw that story I mentioned on the BBC, not pulled from that joke of a tabloid.
Austerity is awefull.
We tried it in Greece.
It does not work.
At all!
That being said, Greece had absolutely no social programs whatsoever, and a crisis bigger than the biggest crisis of U.S. and the amount of people that actually starved was close to zero. Struggle yes. Starve no. It was so rare, that if the reporters found a family that had no food, it made the news. And this during what is by all accounts, the biggest crisis ever in a western country. (Greece has since then started some social programs, many years after the crisis)
Because people knew there is no help from the state, and to expect nothing.
In countries were people have many social programs and handouts, there is where the people starve in the first sign of trouble.
Anyway, whenever you hear the word austerity, wear your yellow jacket!
Whenever you hear the words "internal devaluation" start building guillotines
and the geek shall inherit the earth
This can be fixed easily by doing two things. More immigration, stop trying to leave the EU.
All of which applies to all countries. The Church is even stronger in Christian countries, and there are families everywhere.
The kids that showed up with empty stomachs were so rare that when one was detected it made the TV news!
And well... of course there was (still is) poverty! Big time!
Just saying that when people don't expect handouts, they take other measures. and that in the countries where people just expect the government to take care of them, would fare much worse in a similar situation.
and the geek shall inherit the earth
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.
It most likely is an exaggeration
I grew up poor back in the 1980s on a poor Birmingham, UK housing estate.
My dad was a postman my mom a factory worker and i remember when we used to have to hide behind the furniture when debt collectors came and i also remember having to share a bed in the front room cause it was the only room that had heating. This was back in the mid 1980s.
Things certainly changed for the better going into the 90s my dad became a manager in the Royal Mail and the whole estate was given a massive million pound overhaul and our house was dramatically changed cause the government decided to plough millions into investing in run down housing estates.
I moved to the states in the early 2000s along with my dad and he got a job in an investment firm and we no longer have needed to worry about money since but looking back at those days makes me humble and is the reason i will always never forget my working class roots.