It's pretty clear that "anti-state" in this context actually means opposition exclusively to policies that help the poor and hinder exploitation by the rich.
Two great outliers here are of course the vote for Brexit, and the election of Trump. The elite hated both of those. An interesting paper would thus be to compare the contentedness of these "factions" with their political system between countries that have representative democracy, vs. countries that have a more direct style of democracy such as Switzerland.
Speaking purely from logic, neither the political nor the monetary elite would rationally want regular people to get a possible advantage over them. Moreover, they want people that are dependent on them, because that makes them far easier to control. You do that by making sure they only ever get enough money for their daily bread, without getting so much as to cut into what keeps the elites rich, which is a combination of real estate, banking and industry ownership.
This means both some right leaning, but also left leaning parties, might want to ensure that regular people are never given more than exactly enough for mere survival, but not a penny more. This also goes for education, btw. You don't want to over-educate these guys, lest they become a competitor to the job you're looking for. If you give them any less, you'll have riots on your hand. If you give them any more, you lose control over them.
Well, in some sense you could also follow the labour organizations. Look, if you're a poor migrant who just got a hold of a job, would you love the idea of ten others standing in line for that same job, ensuring that you can't ever ask for a raise? No. If you were a rational human being, you'd start voting for the populist anti-migrant parties in your country of residence, like many immigrants are these days. This is proven by the wages in immigration heavy professions, that have been all but standing still for decades now.
Some people even call this effect reverse colonialism. It's when you're not allowed to earn money off colonialism anymore, so you simply invite the impoverished people for similar jobs in your own country instead. What's worse is that many Labour Party equivalents across the West have even been welcoming this change, since they hoped it would make more people vote for them. But now most of them see that this stance has backfired badly for them. Hence many of them are now experiencing the lowest approval ratings in decades, as many now view them as the direct cause for many of the problems Western countries are now experiencing.
You see this a lot in immigration policy BTW. Why do we have so many uneducated and unskilled immigrants with no legal recognition whatsoever, and so little immigration of skilled workers and business-oriented people, much of it hobbled by restrictions on firm-level mobility (like those around the H1B visa)? Follow the money.
well, what other routes are there?
What would be a viable alternative? If this had happened in the jungle pre-historic times, they'd just be dead. So is it not an improvement?
The person above clearly doesn’t value the lives of the those who are unable to work like those who can. Thus, why they think giving them the littlest as they can is fine. After all, we as a society are only mildly capable of being better than a pack of wild animals. It says a lot about how this person views others, themselves, and humanity in general. Overall, they believe humanity has no hope or worthiness of existence.
There is no constraint on a society enforcing this level of support as an upper bound. A society can dedicate as much or as little of its resources as it chooses to supporting those unable to support themselves, each possible amount having a different set of consequences.
You're arguing for "The Protestant work ethic", which certainly isn't pre-historic. It's associated with the advancement of capitalism.
This attitude is very topical right now, playing out in US politics: https://theweek.com/articles/982343/republican-theory-unempl...
(Ignore the Republican part; most Democratic politicians would go in the same direction, but Republican belligerence gives them the cover to be silent, and to not alienate a portion of their base which would endanger their tiny majority.)