Defining “just” distribution is always the challenge and why socialism fails every time it is tried.
Yes, and "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" sounds really fair and wonderful, until you realize that a faceless bureaucrat gets to decide what your ability is, and what your needs are!
Exactly. It is neither just nor fair to steal from individuals the proceeds gained, i.e., financial and other private property accumulated, through time and by education, experience, effort, mistakes, labor, creativity, invention, investments, diligence, persistence and inheritance, and reallocates by force those proceeds to unnamed others by unnamed others, none of whom had any part in the creation of those proceeds or good results.
If unnamed others were indeed to "justly" or "rightly" lay claim to these good results from individuals and thereby steal from the producers and offspring for whom individuals strive to provide necessities and comforts, the very incentive to do more and produce more, or cause to be produced, is also stolen.
The reverse of the argument equally cannot be said to be either just or right to force unnamed others to reimburse individuals or entities for their failings and shortcomings. This country has done that, by the way, a la welfare and "too big to fail."
How just or right is it when 47% of the population is now provided the incentive to live in perpetual welfare and are, in effect, stealing from the hard work of a shrinking number of producers, from cradle to grave?
How just or right is it when banks or corporations engage in unsound, illegal, and risky business practices knowing that the elitists in the District of Criminals will steal tax dollars from hard working individuals and reward these unnamed others for their immoral and poor choices by bailing them out?
In both cases, it begets feelings of entitlement and greed and leads to laziness, selfishness, corruption, and filthy lucre with a multitude of unnamed others.
In both cases, it rewards what is immoral and punishes what is virtuous for all because that is the result of both socialism and communism.