“That’s different.” No. That IS socialism. It is the erasure of meritocracy. That is the entire purpose of socialism. That our world stop organizing around merit, effort, or individual creation and instead apply one standard baseline to all—from which nobody can deviate. That’s why it failed every time it was attempted. Because humans are hardwired to self-actualitize. It is the highest human purpose, under Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. In other words, socialism violates our human coding. If you don’t understand this, you don’t understand socialism.