She seemed to have little understanding of basic human behaviour....her pursuit of monetarism forced roughly 3 million into unemployment through closures brought about by high interest rates. I think the figure is something like 25% of british manufacture was destroyed by 1982*.
The subsequent "Get on your bike" attitude launched by Norman Tebbit's 1981 outburst** seemed massively naive, dismissing the importance of community, and the costs and difficulty involved with migrating across the country to find work.
(*Source: Mastering Modern British History by Norman Lowe Section 33.1-2
** Quote "I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He did not riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he went on looking until he found it. " - Norman Tebbit in the aftermath of urban riots largely attributed to unemployment in Brixton and Handsworth.)