I agree that people do need to put the effort in themselves. I just think that they put the effort in when they have breathing space and hope. If people can’t see a way out of their situation then they won’t put any effort in, they’ve become hopeless and therefore depressed. You could argue that the disease in that case may be one of perception, and that you need to enrich the person’s life by opening up to new possibilities and ways of perceiving the world. But you can also build more visible progression paths into the system so people never feel that way in the first place and can always see a route out if they choose to take it.

I’d also argue that there are some social programs but:

- we’re drowning in information overload so people don’t necessarily know how to access them. For example, a lot of the poorest households in the Uk did not claim the money they were entitled to from the government for energy payments this winter.

- We don’t really have policies that are addressing the root causes of poverty which are unaffordable housing, unaffordable and/or poor quality education and low wages.