There are also a lot of people who get paid by the government.
Thats the socialism 101!
Huge state, all producing exactly nothing. And the government HAVE NO MONEY. That "paid by the government" actually means paid by the ever shrinking production and sales of products and services. In the form of ever increasing taxation on anyone that makes or work or does anything.
The high taxation this needs to continue, causes ever less competitive business, ever higher unempolyment, and ever smaller profits and so it shrinks continually. Now where is this tax money needed to prop up the centrally controlled armies of civil servants and innefiacient socielist run "services" etc going to come from?
Once those that wanted to invest run away, once every sane business starts its manufacturing and banking in countries that dont tax it to death, where then? Well thats a few years along the socialist destruction route. Thats when they start selling the family jewels, businesses, to foreiners. When they start borrowing ever more. When they begin printing money to oil the wheels and that just devalues it. Thats when total collapse, empty shelves, all profitable industry ends. And you wake up and are venuzuala.
But at least the migrants wont want to stay now. They too will run away. Leaving you all so poverty stricken and desperate that YOU will vote socialist to get some "government" money.
I watched all this play out for a century across half of the planet. Yet marxists keep on reinventing it in 1000 different ways. Right now its grown across the modern once great and rich western world. We are now in managed socialist woke, collapse. And they WANT this. Its their idealistic utopia. Everyone equal (equally desperate and starving and cold and with zero escape) is acceptable to these idiots. And its taken over the west.
But there are signs of the right, and those that know better rising in many countries. The EU are scared. They call anything sane and normal "far right extremists" and capitalism "evil" and they really will do anything to destroy free speech unless its THEIR free speech. We are not allowed to speak. Or have an opinion unless its their "correct" woke lefty idealistic bullshit one.