Ffffuuuu
I just remembered that "private property is a foreign concept to you distinguished effete fellows.
did we negotiate a contract for you to do that?
Meh I just take what I want whenever I need it. It's the only way to be fair really.
private property is a social contract. i agree to stay outta your shit if you agree to stay out of mine. (legal disputes that arise when we can't agree on who owns what notwithstanding.) we supersede that in specific instances through separate, localized contracts between individuals. if society by and large says FUCK YOU to the idea of private property, then it is as if PRIVATE PROPERTY NEVER EXISTED.
same thing for money. we as a society agree that it should have representational value. if we decide that the notion of currency is antiquated and that all exchanges and transaction must be represented as interpretative dance installations, then MONEY DOESN'T EXIST FOR US.
rich people are rich because society thinks that it is okay to consolidate power and influence through currency. it can, quite easily, think it is less and less okay if the abuses become too egregious. if we wish to maintain a stable status quo -- to avoid swift and transformative changes in society -- we must REGULATE it, and that means tweaking a few valves and running some of that currency, influence, and power from areas of inordinately high concentration to those areas starkly deprived of it. taxes are the easiest way to do it. revolutions happen to be more exciting, though.
socialism has failed for the same reason -- power and influence, through bureaucracy and hierarchy rather than currency -- stifled too many people for too long, and out came the forces of balance with their pitchforks and torches. perhaps if the erstwhile trotskyites had agreed to share their power a little broader and with a little less force de rigeur, they woulda survived and even thrived. perhaps we will get the chance to say the same about democratic capitalists. let's find out!