I don't know what good having a 'none of the above' voting option would do. Of course 'they know' that people are disenfranchised, but 'they' don't care. The only thing that stops me fully believing in compulsory voting is that a record would have to be kept and a secret ballot might become more difficult to achieve, particularly as postal votes would have to be included. If a way could be found around that I would support it 100%. Opting out of voting is yet another way for people to refuse to contribute to society and live on the backs of others.
Regarding 'benefit culture', I think it is far more complicated than how it's being presented. IMO, anyone who is unable to work should be better provided for than they are now, and anyone who is able to work should be expected to do so for an agreed number of years over their lives. No exceptions. We all benefit from living in a society with all sorts of things provided for us, and IMO it is wrong for only some people to work to provide those things.
I think that people with long-term illness such as cancer or broken limbs should be looked after and paid when they are off sick. That is why we pay NI. Those with short-term illness should also be paid in full, so they can afford to stay at home, both so they don't infect others and so they can get better.
I also think that people whose conditions prevent them from regularly turning up to work should find different employment, however. I worked with someone who went off sick every time something stressful was going to happen. Most of those things were fairly routine in our line of work - it was her MH that made her see them as stressful. This meant that her workload fell to the rest of us, who were already doing a stressful job, and we were expected to do even more. To me, someone who is incapable of doing a job for health reasons should get a less stressful one, even if it is less well paid. We are not entitled to a particular salary - stressful jobs often pay more because they are stressful, and it is simply not on to 'opt out' of the stress and pass it to others whilst still being paid.
I don't blame older people for being sick. Someone who has worked for decades and finds that they are expected to work for an extra six years is likely to be exhausted - physically if they had a manual job, and mentally if not. Why not set up an initiative to find less demanding work for people between, say, 55 and retirement age if they want it? Training others, working from home, whatever - there are all sorts of possibilities that would allow people to build up their pensions without running themselves into the ground. Or a transitional pension, allowing people to retire earlier and work part-time but get a pension top-up that could be paid for when they were working via a scheme that meant employers had to contribute - it could be restricted to people in certain jobs that are more likely to mean that they will struggle to work full-time in later life.
I don't know the answer to young people not wanting work. Maybe society is changing so they don't need to. Maybe the fact that housing is so expensive means that they don't have an incentive, particularly if they expect to inherit from parents who have made a lot of money from housing. Maybe they are told from birth that they are special and needn't do anything they don't want to do, and that hasn't equipped them for a world where they are expected to do what an employer wants. Maybe other things are impacting their mental health that we need to deal with. Maybe we need to restructure the world of work to better suit the way they do it. I don't know, but it is important that we get on top of the situation before it's too late, and help them.
