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I miss when people knew about socialism. No one is entitled to your money.

Socialism is the radical notion that you are entitled to the fruits of your labor rather than your employer being able to seize it. What a nightmarish hellscape.

Your employer had to work to pay for the facilities, patents, insurance, equipment, etc. Socialism has never and will never work. It's theft

Not when they are large enough to afford people to handle all of those things and continue to profit from their labor. When I say "employers" I'm not talking about small business owners who are actually putting in labor to support their establishment, we're talking specifically

About shareholders in large corporations who do no such labor beyond owning shares and collecting dividends and paying less in capital gains than their actual employees. You're gonna have to explain to me how employment isn't theft in this scenario

Money is tangible reflection of labor. If you buy shares with your labor and risk it on a fluctuating market then you gain what you invest. Taking money from employers and spreading the wealth is literal theft. An employee decides the worth of his labor and voluntarily does work.

The fact stock markets fluctuate means literally nothing here. Shares and other forms of capital are a means to extract value from the labor of others, whether people arbitrarily value that capital higher or lower than other things means nothing, you gain what you did not produce

Employees do not do work willingly in a system that threatens them with homelessness, poverty or starvation. It gives all the power to the employer, shackling the worker. If you do not recognize this not only do you not understand socialism, you don't understand capitalism either