everyone can at least eat
You're not serious, are you? Considering the salaries North Sea pilots earn, you're hardly likely to be heading straight to food banks like a great many of the population have to when they experience redundancy. If you've blown the lot on an oversized house, a flash car and sending the kids to private school then what sympathy do you deserve when you could have been sensibly saving some for a rainy day? You do realise that you work in an industry that suffers periodic downturns, don't you? You could have been subscribing to an income protection policy - they do exist.
Please don't diminish your argument or your standing by suggesting that poverty is around the corner. Genuine poverty exists in both Britain and abroad. You should see it.