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Often (you'll see throughout history), the gentry expects the workers to do the grunt work so that they can have a nice life. But they don't want to pay enough $ for the workers to have their own nice life.
The Poor Law "was intended to curb the cost of poor relief ... by enabling a new system to be brought in under which relief would only be given in workhouses, and conditions in workhouses would be such as to deter any but the truly destitute from applying for relief."
"Fierce hostility & organised opposition from workers, politicians & religious leaders eventually led to the Amendment Act being amended, removing the very harsh measures of the workhouses to a certain degree." "Dickens' novel Oliver Twist harshly criticises the Poor Law."
"According to a 2019 study, the 1834 welfare reform had no impact on rural wages, labor mobility or the fertility rate of the poor." Just pause to ponder what the goal really was.
"The study concludes, 'this deliberately induced suffering gained little for the land and property owners who funded poor relief. Nor did it raise wages for the poor, or free up migration to better opportunities in the cities.'"
"Deliberately induced suffering." Of poor people by rich people. History must be hoarse at this point from having to repeat herself so fucking often.
