RE: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

No system is perfect. Some are more practical and fair than others. It is up to those who implement the system, not the average person, to how the system is evolved. In the US and west in general the system has been manipulated to a degree where every day the law is violated by me and you. In many cases without even realizing that we did anything wrong. All what they have to do is watch a person for 2 or 3 day and they have a reason to arrest him/her. If you did not withdraw 10K from your bank account you probably collected some rainwater off your home roof. In communist countries they didn’t do that, they just arrest you and through you in jail. The result is the same you are in jail because you are speaking up against the system. The rich elites don’t need to collect water off their roofs, they just go straight to Paradise along with all their wealth and they do that legally. The layman persons problem is they have labels association issues. Meaning it is enough to change the label of something or somebody to make the people like and vote for it or hate it.
To summarize “the free market works best when it's free.” I agree. It was never free. It is an illusion of being free, just a label