"...  I am a socialist who sees wealth as a zero sum thing ..."   So ... if you see a farmer with a silo full of wheat, you automatically assume that he *stole* all that wheat from other farmers, instead of going to the work and time and trouble to grow and harvest it himself??  

Likewise, if you see a local baker with a display case full of pastries, do you automatically assume she *stole* all those donuts from someone else?  And there are dozens of people in town walking around, deprived of donuts, because the baker has them all??

Did you go to the Nicolas Maduro School of Economics in Venezuela, by any chance?  o_O