How about people like Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, who've pledged a lot of their time, money, and effort into "charitable" causes? Obscene wealth, but I guess they're doing something that can lift the material conditions or standard of living for people across the world.
Who is further redeemable between a methhead mugging a stranger on the street to get their next fix or some Wall Street banker who plays the game but also makes sure to acknowledge or give cash to the homeless people he passes on his way to work? No one's perfect, of course, but are we drawing lines in the sand in a future society?
I know, I know, I'm turning in my Lib card. :liberalism: .
When you're that wealthy it warps your brain. Taking someone like Gates or Bezos and giving them the same deal as everyone else under communism would be like a prison to them. They would reject it outright and try to lead a rebellion. It's not enough to have their material needs taken care of. It's about something else.
The charity they do is not lifting material conditions for people across the world. It's a means of gaining even more influence and expanding their wealth. Keeping African countries from being consumed by malaria isn't altruistic, it's about preserving a cheap supply of labor and testing ground for vaccines or social experiments. If they wanted to do actual charity they would pay their fucking taxes and stop spending their wealth to rig the system in their favor.
A meth addict mugging someone is not like being a billionaire exploiting thousands/millions. A meth addict is a product of the system, not a perpetrator of it. The war of poverty and drugs creates desperate drug addict criminals. The wealthy create the war on poverty and drugs. A banker giving a few bucks to a homeless person on their way home (as if they walk home or allow homeless to hang out on Wall Street) is not doing anything. Again, if they wanted to help people they'd stop their exploitative jobs.
It's not about being perfect. It's about making a logical connection between exploitation and the results of exploitation. Asking someone to stop being a monster and contribute to society is not demanding perfection. Being a wealthy elite is not some oopsie daisy I accidentally messed up pobody's nerfect moment. It's a conscious will to exploit others.