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Which would account for a much tinier proportion. Sounds like your problem is more moral than based on any real-world impact on your take-home pay :)

In reality very few people will actually choose to sit around on the dole, particularly as they grow up a bit. I can't prove it of course but it does bring to mind the old theory that the welfare system unwittingly seeded R+D for the UK's creative industry (up through the 80's at least), and which has turned out to become a major UK export.




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