Do you work in healthcare? Are you a nurse, a doctor, a specialist, or a skilled surgeon? Your skills and efforts in caring for people now belong to the State; the State will decide how much money you can make (as well as decide which patients receive your care.)
Are you an engineer? Do you design things: new medical devices, air conditioning units, automobile engines, aircraft, or petroleum refineries? Your work will now belong to the State, and the State will decide what you will work on, and they'll decide what you will get paid.
Do you work in software development? Do you design apps for smartphones, program and implement databases, or write telecommunications' software? You will now work on projects the State deems important. You will get paid as much as a janitor, a convenience store clerk, or a landscaper.
I could go on. I cannot believe that this kind of talk is even gaining traction.
Excellent post, and definitely not mentioned by the socialists.
My grandfather was a hard-core Stalinist. Many tears ago he argued that doctors and truck drivers should be paid the same. There is no exceptionalism in Marx-Land. If I had been older and wiser, I would have asked Gramps why anyone would bother to become a doctor under his system.
There’s the weak-minded idealists who think this is a good idea, and then there’s the self-centered opportunists who are aiming to be in the ruling class that administers socialism.
Even in the depths of the grip of communist sentiment, the high governing class did very well in Russia and China.
Communism and Socialism are free enterprise for the governing class.