When you're a hammer (libertarian) everything looks like a nail (bad faith crisis management to justify to government overreach).
The problem is the world is full of crises that need government support, the question is which do we want addressed?
The problem is the world is full of crises that need government support, the question is which do we want addressed?
The government caused all those things to go up
Don’t confuse government causing a increase in government spending on something with causing an increase in the actual supply of that thing. When governments restrict the supply of healthcare and housing (which they do, through professional licensing and zoning regulations), they can spend more on them without increasing supply.
You seem to not address fraud in the market, like snake oil salesmen, at all
But the greatest increases in life expectancy were from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s. The improvements have slowed since then, appearing to plateau in the last decade or so.
And it just so happens that in that time period, the government had way less control over the healthcare system in the US.
Literacy is actually decreasing in recent years, as education spending by the government increases. Higher education has never been more expensive, thanks to guaranteed student loans provided by the federal government.
If you're more talking about developing countries, then the correlation is far stronger with level of economic development than with government involvement. In fact government involvement is often inversely correlated, slowing development.
Andrew Cuomo falsified and hid information regarding his mismanagement of elder care facilities. Hong Kong has been placed under de facto martial law by the CCP with the goal of crushing dissent. Various governments and government organizations have spied on their citizens through COVID tracking apps or secret purchases from databrokers. Barrack Obama recently delivered a speech at Stanford calling for an end to free speech on the net under the guise of "regulating social media" and "stopping the spread of disinformation".
Why is sacrificing rights to governments still considered a necessary solution to problems that governments create themselves? Have you learned nothing from history or those who lived through it long enough to write on the subject like Orwell and Arendt?
Don't you complain about mah free market libertarian data brokers!