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Lemmy: "SOCIALISM!"
I'm listening. How does that economic system stop money and power from flowing to the top?
Lemmy: "FUCK YOU!"
If you are angry about capitalism, an economic system, why are you not angry about democracy, the political system that has failed to reign in the economic system?
Lemmy: "GO FUCK YOURSELF!"
Snarky, I know. But I have never once got an answer to those questions. Not once.
(Education is my answer to all of the above. Fight amongst yourselves.)
By having no top. In socialism, there are no capitalist owners, and the only way to make money is through having a job and its corresponding salary. If you don't believe socialism reduces the flow of money from "bottom" to "top", you can check empirical data. Top 1% in modern capitalist Russia has above 20% the total income of the country. In Soviet times, they possessed 4% of the total income. This is a marked reduction in the money flowing to the top.
Because democracy under capitalism is a lie. Having a powerful owning class whose interests oppose those of the majority ensures that the interests of the majority will be ignored.
Now you have answers
"How" is ambiguous; you describe a system that have not those issue, but not how to get this system. If we agree on the following :
Then we need to organize internationally in order to get the mean of production, and without a "top" that could become ruling class. I think that's pretty much describe revolutionary unionism or anarcho-syndicalism.