To think society is more entitled since covid lockdowns?

[Felixss]

Since the COVID pandemic people seem more grabby financially . We spent lots and lots of money on furlough and schemes to prop up the economy. We are in deep trouble financially with an aging population. Yet people seem to be demanding more and that the government will bail everyone out. It's likely we cannot afford the public services we are used too there's not enough people paying taxes. People seem to think staff should work for very low pay in appalling conditions. It's likely people will have to make contributions to their healthcare and dental care. We are paying more taxes but it's not making a dent in the overspending. AIBU We are becoming a poorer country and yet many can't admit it?

You oversimplify, and I don't agree that people are being entitled if they want the socialised healthcare system most of us have never lived without to continue functioning.

However, it's true that a lot of people have failed to get their heads round what it looks like to live in a society with a shortage of workers. There used to be this idea that there'd always be someone else to do it, which there's not now. So for example you hear people talking about how no more than X percent pay rise is reasonable, as though that somehow solves the issue.

And on the issue of lockdown in general, I think it's inevitable that living through something as seismic as that is going to change a lot of things. Both for individuals and on a societal level.

Well you only have to see some of the current threads about not wanting to work and feeling entitled to UC to support that which would suggest there is a grain of truth OP

It not being worth people's while to work more in some circumstances isn't because of covid, though. That was happening long before, both in relation to top up benefits and for other reasons. It's just getting noticed more now because we don't have as many workers.