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The only people who benefit from the people not being entitled to the money they earn is the people in power (the government)
If people are working and their money isnāt theirs it is theft
I don't think any socialist society has ever abolished money so far, though it's an admirable future goal. The USSR certainly didn't abolish money, they had Rubles.
I was referring to how the people work and the government takes their money and ādistributesā it, but most of it actually just goes into the governmentās pocketsā¦
And who is "the government"? Elected officials? Bureaucrats? Do you think the low-level grunts at the tax agency are living high on the hog? Or do elected officials take your money and hand it to their buddies in the form of lucrative government contracts? And who is elected? Capitalists consort with each other and choose who among them is to represent you. You're conflating the bureaucratic apparatus of the state with the class that controls it (capitalists) and in doing so losing sight of the actual material reality at play.