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Is this supposed to be a surprise, or a bad thing? It's not good when someone like Zuckerberg has way more than he deserves, while others have far less than they deserve.
It will never happen to actual wealthy people like Zuckerberg. When Marxists are in charge of a society, It is always the middle class & working class that will have their "wealth" redistributed.
No lie there, but you can still have a limited redistributive system like in parts of Europe. My main concern is not even that Zuckerberg has too much money, though he does, it's that he uses it to corrupt institutions and democracy. As do so many other rich people, like Soros.
You're not wrong. And I don't know if there will ever be a proper solution to that problem.
Without going into detail, I'm probably more left on economics than most here at KIA2 and definitely at TheDonald. I consider myself a Safety Net Capitalist. But I am very anti-Communism, anti-Socialism and anti-Marxism because I know those types of governments are oppressive. I know how Marxist promises of "end of hierarchy", merely enhance the hierarchy and help those at the top fuck over those at the bottom by not allowing any upward mobility.
It's the same ol', same ol'. Their slogans are always directly opposed to their actions. The French revolutionaries, the forerunners of the Bolsheviks, also advocated 'liberte, egalite, fraternite' - but you got your head chopped off for being mildly moderate. That's neither liberty nor equality, as the man who gets to decide that you need your head chopped off is always more 'equal' than the rest of us.
Ideally, there would be a balance between different powers - so that no one is able to dominate the other and all of us. In America, in my view, the greater threat comes from private individuals and corporations than from government. They censor at will. They dominate the government through lobbyists. In my own Europe, I agree that too much government is the problem almost everywhere.
So people don't deserve to eat, have a roof over their heads, because they work in a job that is actually useful but less valued than a $250,000-salaried "Diversity Officer"?
I agree that the solution is not Marxist redistribution.
Redistribution is not Marxist by definition though. So yeah, I'd like to see money be redistributed from the Mark Zuckerbergs and George Soroses of the world to, for example, coal miners.
"It is only because the miner works his guts out that the superior can remain superior."
- George Orwell