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I'll bet you every country has approximately the same percentage of people who could work but don't.

I think work ethics come across in parent's attitude and example, whatever other help they have been offered. I was raised within the Welfare State, which to US eyes should have encouraged everyone of my generation to be a deadbeat scrounger. We're not. The majority of people will always want the freedom of making their own way through life.

You brought your children up in what I see as a we-might-rescue-you-when-you-have-nothing-left system (my bias and I admit it) but they learned the same work ethic I did. And you are probably their hero the same way my Daddy is mine, except you have more money.

If you love your children you will prepare them for the future, whether that means setting them to pick rubbish at 10 years old, working to earn money for them, or taking shifts so you barely see your wife for the best part of ten years. And you take what you feel is your due, whether it's the patch of earth your own father worked, food stamps that gall you or the free schooling that every family is offered.