[hutrdvnj]

But it's not that easy. These 10 extremely rich monkeys provide jobs (which convert to bananas at the end of the month) to millions. And these jobs do generate value to million of people. This is how capitalism work, of course you can suggest different forms of economical and political systems like socialism, but so far history has told us that capitalism works quite well.

[quantified]

Ah, the heroic job creator. Deploying people and objects for a functioning economy is valuable. Keeping all the bananas because of a feeling that the bananas are to be kept by you, that the job of those people is to get you those bananas, not so laudable. Making sure that there are few bananas for anyone other than the ones you can provide them (nature and other people will assist you with this) helps this strategy.

[moistly]

DEMAND creates and provides those jobs. Those rich monkeys could be vapourised tomorrow and by and large the world would continue on without particularly missing their existence.

[hutrdvnj]

Yes, but you need someone with much bananas to build a big factory in order to match the demand.

[moistly]

No, you only need the cooperation of many banana-holders collectively pooling their resources. In fact, that’s how it usually happens.

[babagabooj]

The basic problem is that there is a massive imbalance of power/leverage due to the massive wealth gap. In socialism, the ruling class has that power. Neither capitalism nor socialism lead to fair and balanced allocation of resources/power/leverage. We don't have to settle for either.

[hutrdvnj]

> We don't have to settle for either.

Well that's easy to say, but what's your suggestion to the problem?