One of the most effective Statist strawmen is the “Greedy, Selfish Person that just wouldn’t voluntarily help the poor”. For those that believe this is the norm throughout civil societies, they have decided the State should be trusted to reallocate private property to the poor. Practically speaking, the implemented solutions basically combine class feudalism, job rationing (through minimum wage and regulations), false hope (through affirmative action and the higher education scam) and a small pittance with many strings attached (welfare). These policies are millennia old and have failed the most vulnerable members of society, low-skill impoverished adults and their children, for just as long.

Libertarians (small and big L) have failed in backing up their pitch that while self-interested, rationally, nobody achieves their maximum satisfaction isolated in a tunnel, and happiness, being the end goal, is thwarted by humanitarian crisis and tragedy. It is the reason that politics mobilize so many millions of people – even though cycle after cycle voters get nothing but empty promises and less personal & economic freedoms. Billions of individuals actually genuinely DO care about these things, pursuing happiness is extremely difficult for the vast majority of people if and when suffering is all around them. Its why in 2015, US Citizens donated over $358 Billion to charities, already approximately 35% of the revenues government takes in through social insurance taxes.