Social equality?
Person A - studies hard, becomes a straight A student, goes to university and, gets a great job, earns lots of money and enjoys the benefits of their hard work.
Person B - leans a trade, works hard and gets themselves into a position where they own their own company or work high up in another company and earn lots of money and enjoy the benefits of this.
Person C - can't be bothered, doesn't study hard, no work hard, earns very little money.
Should person C be entitled to the same standard of living as persons A and B? If you think so then you and I are about as polar opposite in our views as possible.
As far as social equality goes EVERY SINGLE PERSON has a free education up to 16, 18 if they want it. they all have exactly the same opportunities for apprenticeships, education, training etc. and access to the same job market. Of course some people have wealthier families who help them along but this is in addition to the entitlements/opportunities listed above which are available to every single person.
Social equality? What about the scum showing some respect to show who's table they feed from?
A lovely, if extremely flawed and simple set of examples.
What about
D: Someone who has a good job but the company shuts down/relocates and they can then no longer get a job in the field they've spent the past 20-30 years in, and no one wants to hire them because they're "overqualified"
See als
D1: Someone goes to University, gets a great degree but then there are no longer the jobs available because the industry has moved on/off to cheaper countries.
Or
E: Someone works all their life, but then has an accident or similar.
or
F: Someone works hard, doing the "menial" jobs that are absolutely essential for those who can afford to look down on them, but barely get paid a living wage - you know the people like the bin men, the cleaners in the hospitals etc (and we've all heard of the stories about how economising on the cleaning staff has affected things like the level of cleanliness in hospitals*).
In your world no one would ever get their bins emptied, or the streets cleaned etc as they're jobs that don't require huge amounts of training/skill/education, nor do they pay well....
It also ignores the minor fact that not everyone is able to get a better job even if they want to due to things outside their own control.
The biggest problem around my area isn't with the "council" housing, where the tenants can be moved out if they cause problems, it's the "private" houses where the owners are sometimes many times worse than any of the council tenants and often much better off financially, but that doesn't stop them acting like the worst kind of Jeremy Kyle participant.
*Oddly enough when you pay the absolute bare minimum possible you don't tend to get the best out of staff (or even the best staff to do the job, even for something that is relatively simple like cleaning).
