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Libertarianism would lower the quality of life of most people. CMV

Over history, in times of lax regulation, standards of living have dropped for the majority of people- for example, in the 18th to early 19th century in the UK, people just leaving elementary/primary school would work in factories and mines for 15 hours a day until they dropped dead. After a certain point, popular votes got legislation passed that enforced standards like a living wage, mandatory breaks, and later on mandatory education/taxpayer funded healthcare. Since 1850, nobody could deny the quality of life for both the average Briton and the average Brit in the bottom 5% of the UK in terms of wealth has improved. I don't see any mechanism by which that could have happened if it weren't for regulation, therefore I don't see any reason we wouldn't revert to that if we removed that legislation.
gpt
Those horrible factories were an enormous step up for the people working in them.   Consider that people left the countryside by the millions to flock to industrial cities.  All of human existance up to the point of industrialization was a struggle to not starve to death.  Industrialization and free enterprise created more wealth and improved the quality of life of more people than anything since fire and agriculture.  Your very first statement is demonstratably false. The quality of life for the first workers was a step UP or they would not have been leaving the countryside to line up for those jobs; horrible as they seem to us today.

Right this second its lifting hundreds of millions of Chinese out of millenia of subsistence farming.  Over the past 20 years freer markets have lifted the quality of life for the people of India as well.   

You dont create wealth and comfort with the stroke of a pen, you create it with a vibrant growing economy.. and that is what free markets (libertarian economics) create.