Or maybe the pay rates for skilled people is too low? If benefits are really too high this creates a poverty trap if wages are low. However I very much doubt that benefits are 'generous' now, if they ever were.
But you don't need to pay them as much as skilled folk.
Of course not. But does anyone really say this?
Up to a point. But the gap between the 'haves' and the 'have nots' has widened, making it more difficult for many. Accomodation costs now are vastly higher than they were a few decades ago, for example.
Do they think that? (Maybe the ones from obscenely rich families).
Some did.
Holiday in Blackpool -- *Luxury* ;-)
No. Not if you had to work/study a long way from your parents location.
We don't need to ;-)