Rewards for your labour? - No! Punishments preferred.

Punishment is virtually absent today for petty crime AND to a worrying degree, for serious, life-threatening crimes.
Not to worry though, punishment is alive and well and targeted at people who: like to heat their houses, have nice views, have a car, enjoy a holiday, eat varied diets, drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes or who try to lead a better or more interesting life.
This is what the left are all about today. They have long abandoned the idea of trying to raise standards of living - no - influenced by Greens (and seeing the taxation possibilities within) they are determined to drag people downwards.
This is precisely the same principle employed with their destruction of the grammar schools and we have paid a massive price for that over decades.
They need to be careful. Disincentivising society is a dangerous way to go. People need to feel that working hard will have rewards.
This is the main reason why the USSR fell - incentives were absent.

Proverbs 21:20 - New International Version In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has.