First of all, let me say “everyone gets paid the same” has never ever been a communist platform. We don’t have a problem with hard working guy getting paid more. We have a problem with lazy ass rich dude getting money other people earned simply because he already has money.
Capital is literally defined as “money used to make more money” and capitalism is a system in which you can get money for doing literally nothing but already having money, if that doesn’t prove that A: capitalism makes wealth pool at the top and drains it away from the bottom, and B: shit’s fucked up, I don’t know what does.
But now let’s talk about the meth head and the family man again, let’s say the meth head gets 15K a year working as say… a convenience store clerk. Let’s make shit simple and give the family man a 30K a year, about average for a middle class dude. Now, if we were to give the meth head as much as the family man that would be a raise of 50% of the family man’s salary, you with me?
Okay, now let’s talk about Whoopit Wilkins III who never works, who gets money because his great great great great granddad ran a mill and he inherited a great big eternally increasing trust fund. Let’s say he earns 100 mill a year, which is moderate for a 1%er given that the Waltons earn 1 bill a year each just from their walmart dividends.
Now how many times mr. nice hard working family man’s salary does he get? 3333.33X (the three repeats). Now, that means how many years mr. nice hard working family man have to work to make as much as Whoopit Wilkins III gets in one year. Over three thousand years.
Now if it’s 50% unjust for a meth head who doesn’t work to get as much as the family man wouldn’t that make 3333.33% unjust for Whoopit to get that much more than the family man?
Which makes capitalism at least 3283.33333333% more unjust than a socialist system with a guaranteed basic income of 30,000 per person.