Not quite, there was social spending on things like (simple) roads and temples (which could double as schools), but obviously nothing close to today's (wealthy) standards.

Yet I have to wait 2 months (literally) to have an orthopedic doctor look at my broken foot, by that time whatever could have been improved will be long fucked, or I have to go private and pay 100% out of my pocket. I don't own a car, can't afford kids, can't move out of my old contract: it would triple my rent to get an extra room, as for the pension I'll see when I'm 75 or whatever age they decide to make us slave until.

There are lots of countries with roads and hospitals that don't take that much, when I go to poland or other central european countries it feels like a upgrade, most people own their place, working pays in a way that your encouraged to work more, not less, hospitals are fine and much more accessible than in germany or france