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Re:Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract ... by gizajob on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:24PM (#37399190)
The Thatcherite maxim of "there's no such thing as society" is what the Conservative government still have in place today, and have done since the 80s.
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Re:Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract ... by mytailorisrich on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @02:13AM (#37401829)
The point is that 'society' is not something distinct from us that we can blame. Society is only the average result of each and all of us individually, like the big, bad 'market' is.

What Thatcher said:

"There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first."

Which touches the crux of the matter here.

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