@TheHammer although our systems are fairly good we have some massive drawbacks to them, our welfare system actually encourages people not to work and in many cases you earn far more than people who go to work. This results in entire generations of families who have never, and will never work, and do you blame them when by working you get a lot less money and probably lose all your benefits, it also gives them time to earn even more by 'fiddle jobs'. You may find this incredible in these times of lockdown, but we are just about to fly in plane loads of Eastern Europeans to pick our crops, while our own people sit at home and watch tv on benefits.
The thing I always find the most amazing is that these people complain the most about everything, you often hear them saying things like what are 'they' doing about it, they being the state who look after them from cradle to grave. It has gone far beyond being a fall back in times of trouble and become a way of life for many, I think last time I saw the figures we have two and a half million people who have never worked (although a lot will be genuine) and six and a half million immigrants working with an unemployment figure of yes you've guessed it two and a half million. You get the benefits as soon as you enter the country without a need to pay into the 'pot', which is crazy.
The ones who seem to lose out the most are like in the film, they have worked most of their lives then fallen on hard times, they fall outside of a lot of benefits and are left in limbo. Yet despite this we have many homeless, many poor etc etc just like any other country, sad.
So in UK you can be born, live and die and have to a degree no monetary, housing or medical worries your entire life, bet that sounds weird to those in the USA?