State managed pension systems are a pyramid scheme. Government shouldn't be involved in things that society can manage on it's own.
- Food => A steady state is optimal. Growth seeking directly leads to the obesity crisis
- Health => the sector should be working on planning its own obsolescence, not on growing.
- Housing => Ever increasing humanity's footprint is destructive and should be limited.
etc...
That's what it was before government intervention, at least in UK and US. Worker's organisations had employed their own doctors and managed very good, driving medical professionals wages down. Doctors associations asked governments to intervene, license their profession and used this licensing to punish doctors who would work for such organisations.
And now people see broken systems and think that even more intervention would improve things.