Poor people live in cheap areas: shock

From The Daily Mail:

Scottish tycoon Sir Tom Hunter has accused his countrymen of being 'pampered' and 'dependent' on welfare as it emerges almost nine-out-ten working-age people in one deprived area of Glasgow are claiming benefits.

Astonishing figures from the Department of Work and Pensions reveal 85 per cent of working age adults in Bridgeton, in the city's impoverished east end, are claiming some kind of welfare payment.

So? I'm sure that you can find areas in the UK where nearly everybody sends their kids to private school; or where nearly every household owns two cars; or where disproportionately many households are retired pensioners and so on, because birds of a feather flock together.

The fact is, our system of taxing incomes and output; subsidising unemployment (and single motherhood and early retirement); and subsidising the financial sector and land ownership (aka 'Home-Owner-Ism') locks in unemployment. For sure, there are areas where so many people are living on welfare that it becomes self-reinforcing, but what came first: Home-Owner-Ism or the welfare culture? And, having created this army of unemployed, is it unsurprising that they all tend to live in the same geographical areas?

As to "Scottish tycoon Sir Tom Hunter", he may have started off in life by setting up a new, legit wealth creating business, but having 'made it', he now runs a company called West Coast Capital which is basically a rent collecting enterprise, so he's living off the State every bit as much as 85 per cent of the population of Bridgeton.