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> Instead of helping everyone...

Yes, that's exactly what socialism is based on.

Ever read Harrison Bergeron?

Making everyone equally happy is impossible, so the regime ultimately resorts to making everyone equally miserable.

I guess I can understand how people might become confused if their concept of socialism comes from a single satirical book about egalitarianism.

Well, one satirical short story and actual historical socialism's mountains of corpses.