People rarely argue for a larger government or to give up their rights to their government, they're lured into giving up their rights to a government by the impossible promise of a utopia in exchange for these rights ... Quite often what people receive falls far short of what they currently have, let alone what they were promised, which makes it very similar to a devil's bargain.
Now, people who argue against free markets tend to believe that making the system more "Equal" will make everyone better off which has never been the case. Over a long period of time (a couple of generations) the more unrestricted an economy is the more it grows and the more technology it develops and the higher the productivity of a worker becomes; and when you combine all of these together this means that everyone, including the "poorest" people in the economy become better off even though the system is not equal.
