I disagree with just about everything you said and would argue nearly the opposite: too much state involvement in education, healthcare, and the economy is to b

I disagree with just about everything you said and would argue nearly the opposite: too much state involvement in education, healthcare, and the economy is to blame for the deteriorating society. Children are forced to conform to the state's schooling program from a very early age, and those who fail to do so are labeled as such with bad grades and trips to the school office. They are humiliated in front of their peers and feel powerless and dehumanized. This record follows them through their entire schooling career. The religious and cultural traditions of their parents are ridiculed by the authority figures at school. School zones keep poor children out of good schools. Wealth inequality will naturally arise in any system, but when gains go to the politically-connected or well-lobbied, then the state is artificially enriching those at the expense of others. This is not the functioning of capitalism but rather of cronyism and corruption. Student loans are out of control precisely because the government got in the business. Higher education costs are out of control because of the excess money from the student loans. The job prospects suck because of excess regulation in the economy. Entrepreneurs are not able to innovate as well due to so much red tape. Occupational licensing sets up barriers at all levels of the workforce, enriching the incumbents and limiting competition. Healthcare is so overrun with regulation it's laughable to mention the word "market" in the same sentence. Those are barriers put in place of market forces by the state. The drug epidemic is merely the result of all these forces put together.