Those in dead beat jobs usually get themselves out under their own steam, they pay for training courses, night school etc, earn promotion, or just use their own wily efforts to escape.
The idea that people are simply 'pulling themselves up by their bootstraps' is pure Victorian Sam Smile's Self Help (although he did also want the railways nationalised and came to deplore laissez faire capitalism, which people tend to forget) - the idea that hard work and thrift will by themselves bring reward, and that it shows moral character. But how does someone get the chance to gain new skills if they are in a low skill minimum wage job, with little chance of promotion, perhaps on a zero hour contract (to be 'flexible'), and not actually being able to bring in enough money to cover costs, even though they are working full time (the biggest part of the welfare bill isn't people out off work, but people in it, but unable to earn enough to live, hence the need for the state to top up their wages). Night School? They need to be able to pay for it, and the time to actually go for it, if a course is even available.
This is one step away from magical thinking - that if you believe enough in unicorns, you'll get one. The Victorian's did believe in self help, but they also grew to believe in collective action (unions which fought for improved conditions and pay) and education, because that was one way to get ahead. And that wasn't just with 'Worker's Institutes' and the like.
The 1870 Elementary Education Act (introduced as a way to keep Britain competitive in manufacturing) was resisted by many because it not only meant education of the masses, but that taxpayers would be paying for the education of other people's children. But they saw an uneducated population as an unproductive population. Thats not changed.
But do you really think that say a girl, who may not have had a good education, and had wild ,wasted teenage years ( but has a vocation and emotional intelligence) and wants to be a nurse, should not be encouraged because she did not spend 5 years at University and graduate with a degree in history?
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