There is a breakdown of education and personal ambition. Once someone has been brought up to be 'feral' with no education and even a disdain for education, it tends to knock down families for generations.
I see a lot of very well educated non-feral people in the UK struggling to make good wages and a ‘proper’ standard of living. I think that’s what is meant by a broken social contract ?
The UK is an inherently classist society. No need for disdain when it's been the case for literally a thousand years that certain people are afforded excellent education, and others… aren't. Any disdain of education among the working class is more a consequence than a cause.
Immigrants from South and East Asia have children who fare much better than those from the "white working class". It's not because of society or money, it's because of culture and values.
I am not blaming 'victims' but on the other hand if you don't do anything to help yourself you can't expect success...
A personal anecdote: we tried to get one of our children into a grammar school and so got private tuition for 11+ exam preparation. 90% of those attending were of Indian origin, very few 'Brits'. And we are also immigrants.
What Thatcher said:
"There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first."
Which touches the crux of the matter here.
I’m an ambitious guy with lots of success and I work day and night. But I’d never reckon bravery in someone who’s working day and night, they have it easy, since they ecosystem is answering positively to more work from their side. So I just had to bring in the work. Oppositely, when the economy pulls of down by your bootstraps, it takes real courage to be ambitious.