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I've said it before, but will say it again:
We should judge any country (including our own) by how it treats the most vulnerable in society.
Once again, here is more evidence that we are not doing a good job... the vulnerable as ever see their wellbeing & health suffer while we (often) look away, or worse blame them for their predicament.
With bad luck this could be any of us; we should never forget that, but live our lives as is we have!
#poverty #inequality
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/01/rickets-homeless-families-no-kitchen
@ChrisMayLA6 never needed to get food-banks to help so many, government knows what are they waiting for 
@ChrisMayLA6 scurvy next
@ChrisMayLA6 Well, there has been a long-term campaign to vilify and dehumanise those at the bottom. Marking them out as workshy, incompetent with money, selfish, liars and at the core of it blaming the poor for their own situation as if it was some form of radical self-determination to be poor.
Of course paired with that is the illusion that you, non-poor citizen, could be a rich person and not at all that you could far far more easily end up one of those poor.
Yes I agree; one of the key elements of that is the downplaying of the role of luck in society - where social position is seen as directly & solely the result of individual efforts, the rich feel sanctimonious & the poor are blamed for their plight - they are feckless, workshop etc. as you depicted the narrative...