Do you explain 45 million Americans on food stamps as welfare bludgers? That's 15% of the population!
Are those who simply inherit big money and dont work also "bludgers" ? (I assume that you regard work as being the essential ingredient for not being a "bludger")
If so then that "work" prerequisite to riches is a working class belief & certainly not a Capitalist's belief. Capitalism is about ownership and the benefits that that yields, not working per se.
Then there's those who finance illicit drugs and dont work but are multi-millionaires....are those "bludgers" too?
When I worked in Seattle I knew of a young chap who flew twice a week to LA and "muled" back cocaine. His "sponsor/financier" who ran a network of "mules" and he had a mansion on the water, a helicopter and a garage full of exotic European cars.
His "mules" earned $4K a week at a time when the average US weekly wage was $300.
Of course the "mule" in question was arrested after nearly a year and got 7 years in jail. The financier was never touched simply because he could afford to pay protection money; just employed another mug to replace the jailed one.
While both couriers & illicit drug financiers were highly regarded in social circles then simply because they were rich, they were arguably doing more harm to America than those on welfare, IMO.
IMO, the drug trade in the USA is evidence that the Empire is crumbling just as opium addiction in China 200 years ago spelled an end to the then Chinese Empire
