I keep telling the Leftists i work around that the more power they give to the government, the closer they come to being livestock. The progression is: Slavery, where they depend upon the government and are usually treated humanely because of the laws. Pet-hood where they become property of the government and the laws against putting them down are pretty irrelevant. Finally reaching Livestock, they exist only at the pleasure and need of the government and have as many rights as the cow that donated the flesh for that nice steak.
I usually get a bunch of empty (bovine) stares.
If these needs are defined as human rights, then its a legitimate objective of the government to secure them for the people.
We’re accepting European values and Europeans don’t mind paying crushing taxes so the state will look after them. Anger in Europe happens when the state fails to hold up its end of the social compact.
A cradle to grave system delivers security and equality but it comes at the cost of liberty and autonomy. Increasingly though, in the Western World, people want that kind of trade-off.