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In theory, I vote for how my government spends the money it obtains. Bezos isn't accountable for his personal wealth to be spent in the public good (or what I perceive to be the public good). If you assume the government is able to act in good faith on the public interest, then it makes more sense for them to have the money than a single individual only accountable to an extremely small minority of the population as a whole (his board/company)

The idea behind any socialist theory is that "the state" should be acting on the will of "The People" and therefor is better serving them. If it's democratic socialism, you're also able to help put players into "the state" that desire to act on the will of "the People" and remove players who don't. This is all in theory of course. The same way that, in theory, capitalists use their capital to create jobs that require labor which passes wealth to the laboring class. The reality is infinitely more complex.