Well that is my view. If he's spanking his money on Sky and not providing food for his family, you'd have to question his priorities. But there's always two sides to every story, and he might well be a decent bloke who just happens to be saddled with inescapable debts which date from the time...
Surely if you raised the minimum wage to a level that would enable every worker to buy a home, demand for houses would soar, and then house prices would rapidly rocket to a level that would no longer be within the range of the minimum wage workers again?
I'm no economist (clearly) but I'd have...
At face value, you'd obviously have no sympathy with a case like that. But I *suppose* there is just a chance that he used to work, had a decent, reasonably paid job that allowed him to afford such luxuries as Sky TV, but then became unemployed through no fault of his own. I don't pay for Sky...