I think that our only difference is that I don't want to see the government enforce too much on people because I see it as an incentive to allow people to care even less about others - if the government is "taking care" of it, we won't. Sociologically, it's the same as when, for example, someone has been hit by a car and you say, "Someone call an ambulance" - the chances are that no one will because they all assume someone else will or has. But if you point at one of them and say, "You - please call an ambulance," the person usually does (unless they're a total bastard) because they know no one else will.

However, our society is a miserable one when the only measure of success it accepts is a material standard. Whether it's money, or some stupid status symbol, it just helps complete our alienation. We live better today than we did in the 1930s, for example, but people feel poorer because our society is geared to making us feel inadequate if we don't have yet more material possessions, and a particular sort of material possessions. In absolute terms more poor people have more amenities, but the alienation has increased.