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RE: You will not change my mind in the way you want by force or aggression, your only chance at that is by civil discussion.
Will the privileged and the powerful consent to abolish their advantages and luxuries because the unwashed muck ask them politely? Are the shameless and greedy capitalists willing to share their wealth with the destitute proletariat because the workers engage in civil dialogue over tea? Civil discourses and polite demonstrations are extravagance that are not accorded to the unlettered hoi polloi. Words absent force are as worthless as money in the hands of slaves and as meaningless as letters for the illiterate. What the Left want is sociopolitical revolution. Social change does not occur with idealism alone; words are but useless marks on parchment, when matched against bayonets.
I don't personally care about how much wealth a person acquires, I am more interested in how they acquire it. I don't need to let envy and the idea of theft from others dictate how I live my life.
Some wealthy, powerful people are also envious and practice theft.
Yet the problem with driving your life based upon treating generalizations as if they are absolute truths is that makes those that do so into people no better than the generalization they drape over groups of people.
Socialism and communism in the end both end up being very evil things. The super powerful are not afraid of these things at all. In fact some of the wealthiest people on the planet cheerlead for anyone that speaks of these failed experiments. Why? They'll still have power, perhaps more. If it is socialism then they just need position themselves well with the government. Then they are likely to get what amounts to government backed monopolies. If it is Communism they simply need to cheer and lead and give support and by human nature they will likely end up calling the majority of the shots anyway. So far every government/state level communism experiment has created an oligarchy. Due to eliminating history, censoring those that speak out against them, etc. as being one of their methods for making their "Revolutions" happen I don't see that changing. If the mass of the population backing you is ignorant/naive by design then it's pretty obvious you'll end up with an oligarchy calling the shots.
As to capitalism. It depends upon what you are talking about. If you are talking about crony capitalism like we have today then yeah it is messed up, as it just turns into a plutocracy which is simply another form of oligarchy. If you are talking about a free market, it does not do that. Yet as soon as some group or government can dictate the rights/laws to others such that one person/entity is given favor or disfavor that soon leads to crony capitalism. The truth is in a truly free market a monopoly can only exist if the person doing it is doing such a good job that no one bothers challenging them, or people simply haven't thought of a way to do it better. Monopolies persist with government backing. The ultimate forms of monopolies can actually exist in Socialist and Communist lead countries. You see all of these ideologies have factors people like to ignore human nature.
Justifying theft due to envy of what someone else has achieved is NEVER a good thing.