The other user blamed it on conservative ideology and this is true to an extent. Conservative ideology is like that and does put a heavy emphasis on rugged individualism but that ideology exists for a reason. It had to develop out of some need in order to fulfill that need. The truth is full employment is bad for capitalism. It gives workers too much bargaining power. Without the unemployed how will you break strikes? Where will you get your fascist jackboots? How will you prevent workers from leveraging their power for better wages and better conditions?

The fuck you got mine attidude of conservatism developed out of the need to rationalize depriving millions of people and then justify it to those same people. To create a situation where they blame themselves for their destitution. Or, if you are really smart, you get them to blame immigrants and minorities, or women. Instead of you, the capitalist, who is actually responsible. To give the state the capacity to provide broad employment is to create a situation where disaffected workers might blame the state, or god forbid, the people who the state actually serves.

It's particularly convenient because the capitalist isn't the one paying for it either. You are. Working peoples taxes are used to pay for the survival of people capitalists refuse to employ. As always, they reap the profits while we shoulder the burdens.

Jobs programs in the imperial core are usually created during a recession to manage the damage and then abandoned whenever is most convenient. If not abandoned then purposefully made inept.

Depends what you mean. I did a quick check and found that the UK has various programs that help disabled people find or keep jobs. I guess that many NEETs would qualify for such programs on account of psychological conditions.

If you are talking about recipients of benefits, the UK does have workfare programs.. (No more Roads to Nowhere, at least.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workfare_in_the_United_Kingdom

If you are asking why people are allowed to live off their savings rather than being made to work, then that's because forced labor is generally considered a human rights violation.

Because conservative ideology. (Get gud, loser. I got mine. Eat cake and die.)

• Government spending money to help people is the most evil thing imaginable.

• People who can't find jobs are lazy because of their inferior genes so natural selection needs to cull them from the population.

• Worthless surplus humans should be allowed to starve to death in the gutter as an example- reminding all the wage slaves to be grateful to their masters for those wages they've been slaving for.

Not sure the details but I feel like the answer is 'because aires' in at least some capacity.