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the only excess of stuff that the central state DOES have is is a surplus of violence via the military. when the state is expected to shoulder more and more responsibility instead of delegating to individuals it either needs to seize the production or start a war

every state that has tried to forcibly create a transfer of wealth just alienates individuals and causes capital flight. like when all the best people start leaving in a company and the worse people start filling in to the senior and management roles. it’s an irreversible decline

every state that has seized production also has managed it into the ground. even a state like china does not directly manage its state companies but forces it to self police and conform to certain political expectations while leaving alone the actual production decisions

another issue is that the wealthy also don’t have that much “stuff”. just like the government, they just have surplus of paper wealth that cannot be directly used for anything except motivating certain behaviors

a trillionaire does not actually have a trillion dollars of “stuff” to give out. the wealth is just an accounting of “ownership” over patterns of activity in the economy

e.g. say someone owns ALL the restaurants. on paper they are incredibly wealthy. say you work at this restaurant and want more money and complain to the State that restaurant-owner should give you more money bc unfair blah blah blah

restaurant-owner’s main power literally is to tesselate the pattern of activity that is “working at a restaurant” that’s literally the bulk of the wealth personal mansion and cars and cash don’t amount to much relative to the already existing ACTIVITY

the owner is not “hoarding” anything and going “nah nah nah nah i could give everyone a wonderful life in a mansion and lambo but i’m not gonna nah nah nah”