If you need more, you get more. And this becomes a lot simpler by including more people in the decisions and mechanisms. Leaving it to disconnected oligarchs as we do now is how we get inequality.
And if you want to decide how you live your own life, why are you against being given a voice and the ability to make your life better? Having no voice in your workplace, and having to follow the orders of a separate owning class who owns your time is the definition of having others plan your life.
The objections you raise are objections to capitalism, not socialism. Under capitalism, you only get what you can afford. Under socialism, you get what you need, there is no “afford”.
If you need more, you get more. And this becomes a lot simpler by including more people in the decisions and mechanisms. Leaving it to disconnected oligarchs as we do now is how we get inequality.
And if you want to decide how you live your own life, why are you against being given a voice and the ability to make your life better? Having no voice in your workplace, and having to follow the orders of a separate owning class who owns your time is the definition of having others plan your life.
The objections you raise are objections to capitalism, not socialism. Under capitalism, you only get what you can afford. Under socialism, you get what you need, there is no “afford”.