In my experience, as part of my family is from ex communist societies, when you distribute money, there is concentration of power.
A government powerful enough to distribute all assets is super powerful, and those that control this government(the party) have all the power.
Having all the power, they have all the material resources for them, their families and friends, even when they don't have "money". They want a car, they ask for a car with any excuse and the day after they have the car, they want to travel and so on.
The rest of the society live in conditions of near slavery. They could ask for a car, as they are "equal", but it takes years to come, and when it comes, it is a horrible car you could not choose anything about.
Also corruption is levels of magnitude bigger than anything in something near capitalistic(even paying more than 40% to the state) societies. If your wife is beautiful and the people of the party wants to fuck with her, they will blackmail her with the working conditions of her family. The same party that controls the media and justice and the only company that hires people.
That was the reason my family emigrated, all at once.
>The rest of the society live in conditions of near slavery. They could ask for a car, as they are "equal", but it takes years to come, and when it comes, it is a horrible car you could not choose anything about.
Wait, you mean they have homes? As in, stable places to live that don't put them in debt peonage their whole lives?
Wow, that's a pretty big rise in their standard of living versus current-day neoliberal capitalism ;-).
For the love of God, pick a movie about eastern Europe 30 years ago and watch it. You don't know what you're saying.
The only way to arrive at an opinion like that is lack of perspective.
Some people say that living as humans in the wild is preferable to "debt slavery" or "peonage" or whatever the leftists-word-du-jour is. Would you agree with them ? Can you see that you may be suffering from a similar delusion ?
A government powerful enough to distribute all assets is super powerful, and those that control this government(the party) have all the power.
Having all the power, they have all the material resources for them, their families and friends, even when they don't have "money". They want a car, they ask for a car with any excuse and the day after they have the car, they want to travel and so on.
The rest of the society live in conditions of near slavery. They could ask for a car, as they are "equal", but it takes years to come, and when it comes, it is a horrible car you could not choose anything about.
Also corruption is levels of magnitude bigger than anything in something near capitalistic(even paying more than 40% to the state) societies. If your wife is beautiful and the people of the party wants to fuck with her, they will blackmail her with the working conditions of her family. The same party that controls the media and justice and the only company that hires people.
That was the reason my family emigrated, all at once.