Yep, you have to suffer the various effects of the system to understand it. Which is why there are actually hardly any people of the lower class that are actually socialist. They know firsthand that the only thing you are doing is replacing a dependency relation with a power imbalance that allows some abuse with another one that actually increases both dependency and actually institutionalizes abuse.

In my opinion, the modern-day socialists are the equivalent of priests who spend all day convincing people to give some of their money because they are going to make a “better community” and help the poor. In practice, anyone who knows the other side of this trade would rather have a solution that doesn't involve them…