The ultimate objective of ethics is to create an even starting line. A race is fair and has meaning only when everyone's given an equal start with individual performance determining who the winner and loser is. The left has been misguided for the last 10 years, they seek equal end results. In their eyes irrespective of who the fastest runner is everyone should be 1st place and given a trophy. Well that isn't how a race works.
Creating an even starting point is the ultimate objective of socialism. Having the most privileged members of society providing for the most depraved members of society in order to create a more level playing field for future generations, to ensure the random and oftentimes unfortunate circumstances determined for us at birth are not so random. To guarantee every child born in this country a fighting chance to strive for excellence.
I don't believe in communism as I don't believe people are equal. There are ultimately lesser and greater beings. This is measured by how much one contributes to society/how much value they provide. A crackhead making meth in his home lab doesn't provide as much value as someone trying to cure cancer and society should penalise the former while incentivising the latter. The biggest argument against socialism is that the richest doesn't owe anything to the poorest member of society since the losing members of society didn't contribute to his success. That by effectively penalising the richest members of society that we are disincentivising aspirational behaviour since the results of their labour won't be wholly theirs. And while I understand this sentiment it's important to understand the source of success.
What I mean by the source of success is the methods used to achieve success. There are 2 ways of becoming successful. The first is by providing value to others, the second is by extracting value from others.
The first method entails making discoveries, inventing, innovating, being an effective leader and artistic expressions. Things that improve the quality of life for others can be seen as providing value. The second method entails exploitation, slavery, war crimes, blackmail, cooporate sabotage, legal loopholes, lobbying and tyranny. Things that only benefit the benefactor at the expense of others.
I would argue true innovators while successful rarely ever achieve unfathomable levels of success; instead disgusting abundance is something that's reserved for the capitalists. True geniuses rarely invent, innovate and discover due to financial incentives. They do it because it's what they do, it's how they express themselves and interact with the world. The Wright brothers wanted to fly, Tesla (the original, not the jew shill Elon) loved electricity and Shakespeare lived for the written word. Were these people successful? Sure. But have others been far more successful using their inventions? Yes. Boeing, energy companies and publishers have profited off commercialising their innovations far more than the innovators themselves.
True profits lie in commercialisation, not innovations. So why innovate? You may ask. Why does a tree grow leaves? Why does a flower bloom? Why do birds sing? Because it's what they were born to do. To believe capitalistic greed to be the sole motivator for the human temptation to enquire and create is shallow minded. If that was true the wheel (arguably the greatest human invention) would have never been invented.
It's important that we distinguish the methods used to achieve success and appropriately disincentivise extracting value from others while incentivising providing value to others, to not do so is to mistake the meth lab chemist to be as valuable as the cancer-curing biochemist.
When a tree becomes too large it must be cut down for the good of the forest. This is because the tree prohibits the sun from reaching the undergrowth preventing anything new from sprouting. This happens in nature without human intervention as it is the tallest tree in the forest that is struck by lightning and as nature dictates when the tree outgrows the forest, it must die.
To believe yourself to be above others is a fatal mistake. I said that I don't believe people are equal. We are not. We are all different in our unique ways however to confuse this with the idea that one is above the other due to their virtues is a shortcut to self destructive arrogance. We are all flawed and no-one is perfect, do not try to be better than others, try to be the best you can be.