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by Aa9C4xPz43Gg7k6 1722 days ago
For socialists it's never enough, money has to be taxed 10 times. And I'm not using it in the slur way that Americans usually do. There's a kind of thinking that believes that money belongs to the person who earned it. There's another kind of thinking that treats everything as communal (but managed by elite class at the top of the system), taking anything away from the pile is evil then.
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I think you would find many take issue with the concept that those getting rich are by definition the ones who "earned" it, or produced the value. Almost by definition I produced more value than my salary.

There's also the issue of resources. How is it that a corporation can own the oil under my land? Why should that common resource be controlled by some private entity rather than being used for the common good?

There's a balance in all things and attempting to boil this down to "there are two kinds of people" is reductive and unhelpful.