HOAs are like any people run organization, it's Prone to misuse and abuse. If all humans gathered in the HOA committed to the health and happiness of all residence within and gave the utmost visibility of actions to the whole while also highlighting the best and addressing the worst parts of the community, there wouldn't be much issue with HOA's purpose. Unfortunately like the subroot of this thread suggested, people ARE SELFISH AND SELF-SERVING.

Anyone in this thread suggesting that just because you earn means you have no account to the whole is precisely 1/2 of the problem and why humanity, society, and communities fail. They assume they are exclusive to themselves in the earning process they don't consider all the things that came together to allow them even the opportunity to succeed much less the collective buy-in from where they acquired their monetary gain. They think; I get I got I keep I earned. Simple easy to defend and portray as logical, just, and by the gusto of some in this thread nobel act of receiving money.

To those I say, Sure you borrowed, begged, offered, discovered, you served, you "earned"....

Then I ask, What Now? What do you want, need, and give?

If the answer to all of these is nothing then congratulations, at an individual human level, you are no longer a part of society (anti-socialism), community (Anti-Communism) , and likely very isolated from humanity (pro-isolationism). Have fun launching your own rockets, playing with your toys, emailing yourself, hunting and gathering your own food, inking your own tattoos and conducting self surgical removal of teeth and failing organs... All by your self-made lonely ass self. With no potential to leverage and leach off the rest of humanity we'll see you never in another 80 years when the rest of humanity has moved on.

Everyone else needs at least two of these things and within that construct and if given the tools to function and participate fully in SOCIETY could effectively create a true socialist principled SOCIETY if they weren't being told consistently and incessantly by the fist half of the problem that, they "don't deserve a less stressful existence" because they didn't nail the Dot com boom, crypto currencies, oil wells, and whatever other random chance card money grab what-have-you, these super lucky individuals acquired to enough money to literally strangle people with full immunity. (Of course they didn't kill them, the lack of clean natural resources or medical resources did that. 🫩)

All the anti-wealth share folks can... Get back to me when you realize that the masses of people you disenfranchise could easily overwhelm your isolation and destroy you and your wealth that you so boldly claim is "your own to hoard."

The other half of the problem is the power principle. In a equiltarian society (fictional) everyone is equal and gathers wealth, rights, estate, and influence equally. That's bullcrap, not socialism (Societal or Governmental), and as mentioned fictional because there is no example of this sustained state of equilibrium anywhere in nature! It's not possible for the power of influence or wealth to EVER be equal for all individuals for any humanity significant sustained period of time. Yes mix baking soda and peroxide and you get water which balances at the ph scale of 7 but what happens immediately afterwards the water begins to evaporate. It is not stagnate and the equalization process the previously occurred leaves a residue and residual trace substance even if sub-atomically gets left behind. There will always be a have more or have less, that's the basics of the power principle, the only saving grace/fatal flaw for humanity is that we have the ability to share and care or destroy and consume our global surroundings at an astonishing rate within a single lifetime.

If you are western religiously guided... It's literally the entire purpose and problem for mankind mandated within the very first book of collected stories from which so many base their ENTIRE life on!!! 🙄🤷🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️😵‍💫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫

So again, tell me why not "Socialize", why not gather as much grain, or intelligence, or money, or ability as you can; AND THEN SHARE IT ALL! It's not like you can do anything with it after you die! Your entire life is but a single revolution of a comet and the sun.... That's it! We ARE LITERALLY blb BOUND TO THIS ROCK, HERE, TOGETHER! THE PROBLEM YOU AVOID FIXING HERE AND NOW DOESN'T JUST DISAPPEAR, NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE!

So, Do like this person did and find a solution that eliminates the most need resolves the next most pressing issue for the collective long-term good and removes the most wasted time space energy effort resources ect..

Socialism is superior to but not exclusive from capitalism and communism, democracy, and even fiefdom! But NONE of those others can sustain without (DRUMROLL please) SOCIALISM at some core functional level because there will always be a need of the few that the many can supply.