The free stuff talking point is nonsense.
Overall people are not seeking free stuff, but they do want to have dignity and work, and some kind of way to live in order to be able to provide for families.. pump out babies, raise families and enjoy their short time on earth.
Maybe "free stuff" is infrastructure that is needed that is not going to just happen by itself without community involvement (which is another way of saying government)? Yeah, of course, government becomes dominated by a small group of rich folks and corporations, so the peeps receiving the "free stuff" in actuality end up being BIG money that plays the system to their advantage, and the "free stuff" does not tend to get distributed broadly, as the claims are made that social benefits are draining the public coffers when in fact the ones sucking off the public tit the most tend to be well off already.
I'm all for free stuff. I bet I can one-up anyone on the amount of free stuff I want to
have give away. Try me. You're definitely not as caring as I am when it comes to the government giving out free stuff (why don't you want free food for kids? Do you hate children?).
But the extortion part...not a fan.
Maybe we are talking over each other? My main point is that the concept of "free stuff" is frequently misused in order to suggest 1) people need to fend for themselves 2) people are lazy 3) people are the problem 4) people vote based on desires to get free stuff, 5) government is bad, 6) libertarianism is good.
I just don't buy those talking points because they are fantastical criticisms of current systems to want to get rid of current systems while pie in the sky thinking that voluntarism is going to solve everything..