It is all too often now that you hear people lament the “AUSTRALIAN SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT”. Right wing reactionaries lament the people on unemployment benefits that they believe see themselves as entitled to those benefits (as huge as they are)– even if they do not want to work. Conservatives lament the single women they believe […]

It is all too often now that you hear people lament the “AUSTRALIAN SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT”. Right wing reactionaries lament the people on unemployment benefits that they believe see themselves as entitled to those benefits (as huge as they are)– even if they do not want to work. Conservatives lament the single women they believe see themselves as entitled to have as many children as they want and continue to collect benefits (which will never cover the costs). Politicians in general are becoming increasingly concerned about what is see a sense of being entitlement to ‘middle class welfare’ (a term I am yet to hear well defined) Left wing revolutionaries lament the entitlement that Australian corporations are seen to have to maximise profitability and employ who they want to achieve those profits (even when it is profit that makes the current economic system work). I lament the idea that seems…