This is more an inherent problem with capitalism, right? You have to sell goods and services for a profit. But if everyone makes a profit, the money will lose value, and there will be winners and losers. The winners will continue to be bigger and bigger winners, and the losers likewise in the other direction. Throw in the stock market and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

That's unregulated capitalism...

Where people are able to accumulate significantly more wealth and that snowballs on its own.

For most of America's history, once people started accumulating that level of wealth, we started taxing the shit out of them, up to 94% just like a century ago.

But I don’t know if I agree that the money is “ours”. Rather, a reasonable portion of it should be shared for the benefit of all.

"Ours" as in society's....

Would you agree that the purpose of money is to facilitate that exchange of goods and services amongst members of a society?

Or do you think it should be used as a competition to see who can accumulate the most even well after the point they could spend it all if they tried to?

Because people die if they don't have money, the obsessive co pulsives could just go collect beanie babies or pokemon, pretty much anything else other than the one thing society depends on to function without having to revert to the fucking barter system