I know many people believe that any reliance on the state is a trap and I can see that it might have that effect at times but it is also vital for people to survive for many people. It would be wonderful if all it took for everyone to suddenly find secure, sufficently paid employment was to end state support but this is just not the case at a time when jobs are disappearing overseas and to automation all the time.
The right wing ideology seems to be that we must take care of everything ourselves. Get a degree if you can, get a job if you can, start paying back your student loans, start paying into your pension by 25 (£250 a month they suggest) save for a deposit for a house or pay extortionate rent, get married, have a baby but mind don't leave it too late, take the double whammy hit of having a baby if your a woman to your work life and financially that having kids often means then go back to work asap and pay for expensive childcare while you are working if you don't have retired parents to help out which will increasingly be a thing of the past as people are having to work later and later into life as retirement is pushed back to 70! Then when you do have a sick or elderly relative you can also expect less and less support for them and will be expected to do more and more as state provison is increasingly scaled back in the name of balancing the books and getting us to stand on our own two feet.
The senario above is actually probably for someone who is by conventional measures doing well, there will be many others doing much worse due to ill health or lack of oppertunitiy struggling to even put food on the table never mind saving for a pension.
Most of us in this country are reliant on the state to some degree but some peoples reliance is demonised so that NHS or states schools or pensions are acceptable benefits are not. While we squabble amongst ourselves the system we have all come to rely on is being dismantled beneath us and many don't see it coming or the carnage it will cause. Its hardly true that we all lived decent lives through working hard before social secutiry, its a joke to imagine all businesses will step up to the plate and pay fairly if state support goes. You can work extremely hard and still live in poverty quite easily in this country. Brexit is also not going to make things any easier or better for ordinary people as I can't imagine the tories being keen to keep the EU's rules on workers rights for example.
Am I being unreasonable to think people should wake up and see where this is headed before its too late?