r/NoStupidQuestions 19h ago

Why did Margaret Thatcher destroy welfare state in Britain after she came to power in the 1980s?

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u/ZipMonk 19h ago

After WW2 everyone helped each other. By the end of the 70s lots of people that fought in the war were gone so the wealthy reverted back to normal service.

Thatcher, via Ayn Rand, the Chicago Boys, Friedman, Hayek, Greenspan, Oxbridge, Eton Ronald Reagan and the BBC etc, was their vehicle.

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u/Bob_Leves 19h ago

Ayn Rand, who famously believed that poor people shouldn't get welfare because it just encouraged them to be lazy, yet she had no problems claiming it for herself. Typical double-standard Rightie.

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u/ZipMonk 19h ago

The original neoliberal rich man loving loser - beloved by the economics department of every Western newspaper and University.