toxicTom: No I don't. Left is about inclusion.
No, it's not. Indeed Leftists are noted to be particularly adverse to Intellectual Diversity, but as an Ideologue I suppose it is only natural for you to identify a label a "good" and anything that stands in its way as "bad" in the manner of someone at a child's level of development under Piaget's framework.
As Orwell noted in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' the advocates of your Ideology do not like the Poor, they envy the Rich.
toxicTom: So you have never read Marx... Marx was first and foremost an analyst of the capitalistic economy.
And his statements
for the most part are correct to this day (he couldn't foresee something like the internet...). That is why Marx is taught even at the most conservative and "elite" economic schools even today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxian_economics I'm sorry are you trying to claim a heterodox school of thought is mainstream, and has value? Granted you've established you're an Ideologue who thinks one of the worst economic systems is a good idea in any way shape or form. So I suppose you had to latch onto something, and as we all know the Marxist apologetics refrain is "they didn't do it right."
Incidentally as you'll note from that wikipedia article covering Marxian Economics at all is atypical enough to actually call for a list of those few universities who do cover it. Also the "you don't agree, so you must just not know about it" is an inane rhetorical device. You as an advocate of a position are expected to make the argument for your school of thought having value and/or being valid, not stamp your foot and act like a grade schooler.
toxicTom: Sounds nice in theory, but the reality is that the "productive people" are working their asses of for the unproductive people who simply own everything...
We both know you have no evidence for this assertion.
Let's however break your assertion down to demonstrate how inane it actually is. So your premise here, which you state at the end is that a small group of people "simply own everything." Now from this we can assume your focus is directed on business owners, while throwing a blind eye to increased pay associated with raises, moving to higher position withing a discipline, or management. That by itself that renders your assertions untrue, but let's dig deeper.
The more fundamental problem to your argument of course is that you don't live in an Aristocracy governed by Old Wealth, who are composed exclusively of brats who would squader Daddy's wealth before they're 30. Indeed believe it or not, you can actually walk down to the relevant office and establish your own company. The Old Guard aren't going to jump out of a bush and gank you if you dare to try. Oh what's that, you're not interested in starting a business? There's a lot of risk counterbalancing the potential rewards? There's a lot of work and risk involved? I'm sorry what was that about "they just own stuff"?
Oh wait, maybe you just mean CEOs of companies that have gotten big, without taking into consideration how. Well much like any other position the position of CEO carries with it job responsibilities, and has qualifiactions. In turn a bad one can destroy a business ala Tim Cook while a good one ala Steve Jobs can turn a weak company into a powerhouse of the associated industry.
So in short, you simply don't know what you're talking about. Now if instead of making unqualified generalizations you couldn't hope to support you made an actually measured statement, like claiming pure meritocracy doesn't exist you might begin to approach having a point. You then however would actually have to look into why it doesn't exist instead of simply being an Ideologue.
General Economist thought incidentally tends to revolve around the concept of Incentives, and people responding to Incentives. Something the childishly naive notion of people working hard, naturally doesn't work with as what would then be their Incentive to do so if they aren't fairly compensated based on what they can sell their labor for? Similarly the childish notion people will only draw per their needs, because magically under Marxism no one would ever be a lazy, greedy assholes who would exploit the system despite you're biggest source of whinging being an obsession with lazy, greedy assholes who exploit the system..