So why are they 10x as expensive in the US, with fewer safety nets?
Where are you pulling these numbers from? There's only 1.5m working age people out of employment and most of those are transient.
There's also less than a million vacancies in the UK, the jobs literally don't exist you melt.
10x as expensive, what is? No its not.
Uk and USA, basically are the same, you are making comments like the USA is a capitalist utopia, no.
Numbers explained below.
Jobs are created and lost per economic circumstance, doing something like ending social programs would mean a boom, and more job creation
Are there 5 million out of work in the UK?
And how many of them are actually capable of work and not already doing something else...
IIRC for example by DWP standards you are only officially a carer if you are putting 40 hours a week into looking after someone and DWP do not count being ready to respond over night in those hours unless you are actively needed all night (and thus happily ruling out anyone who needs to be on site and ready to go but "only" needed 2 or 3 times*).
IIRC there are 1.5 million people in the UK out of work completely, to put things in perspective there are 5 million unpaid carers (and only 1.4 million people in the UK claim carers) and most of the unpaid adult carers are classed as "unemployed" despite the fact they might be "working" 60 hours a week or more caring for someone, just unable to actually get paid anything other than JSA for it.
I know when my mother was ill she required 3 people to barely manage to care for her but under DWP rules only 1 of those could have potentially claimed despite the fact that she needed people up and around 24/7 and we were very lucky we could do that.
*Try doing things like changing bedding and spending 30 minute at a time caring for someone multiple times a night and saying that's not going to affect your ability to work, or not the same as being on call for the full 8 hours, but apparently it only counts for DWP if you are actively needed all night.
So from age of 16-64, @ 25% unemployment leaves around 10.5million people.
From there i have halved it to account for students, people who retire early, and so forth.
Either way, the exact numbers are not really important, whatever it is, or however you calculate it, the lower the better, simple as that.
Why people now say, a normal person on a normal salary has no chance to buy a house etc, this is the explanation.
As more people are working, and if the system is capitalist, thus useless jobs are discarded quickly, thus people are doing useful jobs.
More things are produced and thus prices are lower, while at the same time taxes are lower.
So, if we reduce socialist policies, we can cut taxes, and the prices of goods/services would decrease.
Its not quantum physics.
(full retail/list price).
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