Correction

I must apologise. I try to always be rational when analysing reality, but I must confess that I allowed my reason to be a slave to my passions in my last post when I referred to benefits being the price that the rich pay for their privileges. I succumbed to my emotions and allowed them to cloud my reason and for that I apologise.

Of course we all pay for the benefits system through general taxation, but that does not minimise the fact that benefits are the price that our system pays for its legally underpinned structural arrangements. In our society we are dependent on money for all of our needs. As a result, money is an essential requirement, and is obtained by the vast majority of the population through employment for a money income. Modern Britain is the result of a historical process that began with the Norman Conquest. Through this process we have reached an empirical reality whereby 1% of the UK population own 70% of the land. This development is also the reason for the class structure of the UK whereby much of that land is owned by the monarchy, the church and an aristocratic elite. If the system of ownership denies people access to land that can sustain them and provide for their food, and a legal system upholds the heredity basis of legalised theft, and creates a modern economy in which the vast majority of people depend for their existence on working for an employer who will pay them a money wage within an economy that is entirely dependent on money, and then significant sections of the population can’t find work and don’t have enough money to live on as determined by the norm for that society, which also progressively denies them a sufficient level of the benefits, then that is not their fault and they cannot be blamed for it. In a modern society like the UK, operating under a capitalist economic system that entrenches politically, legally and socially the rights of private property ownership, but refuses to admit that people have a right to employment, then in the absence of employment the state – the organised governmental system of that society – must provide you with alternative funds to sustain a reasonable standard of living. 

The system of ownership has its genesis in military conquest and has been sustained by legalised theft and systematic fraud, which has evolved into so-called property rights. However, with rights come obligations, and, if your rights have been gained by denying your fellow human beings the fundamental means to sustain their life, then you are obliged to provide an alternative. As a result, if the capitalist class of property owners and employers cannot, or will not, provide sufficient means of employment and money wages to the population, then the state must do so, as it is this state that is upholding and supporting that economic system. This is the rationale for social security.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat