Many parts of that personal anecdote sound fishy and biased to me. He "managed to" sounds like some kind of fraud, but no evidence is given. His wife is put int

Many parts of that personal anecdote sound fishy and biased to me. He "managed to" sounds like some kind of fraud, but no evidence is given. His wife is put into scare quotes, but it seems they were living in a personal union - where I live, this is equivalent of being married, but maybe in the UK it's different. Is it illegal in the UK to own a car or a motorbike when you're not fit for work and get benefits because of it? You sound as if it is, but that seems implausible to me. The list goes on and on. Maybe this particular guy is skimming the system, but even then he's probably skimming it way less than the many people who evade taxes with offshore accounts, etc. The priorities are quite dubious, because statistics show unambiguously that more and more money and resources flow to less and less people - it's fairly drastic, if you look at the data. What's wrong with most systems is that they are patronizing recipients of benefits and try to force them into extreme low wage labor (often to falsify unemployment statistics), while the gap between rich and poor is continually increasing at a higher and higher rate. Instead, society should give the lowest income classes some better perspectives, improve their working conditions and overall social power. For example, with a basic income system, but there may be less drastic improvements. Then they can also buy more useless stuff that breaks after two years, which is what everybody wants, right?