I think this is one area where our messaging really breaks down.

the collective/group gets to determine how the fruits of people’s labour are distributed

For a lot of people, this is an absolutely terrifying proposition. Imagine you are part of the half of american adults that struggle with reading. Maybe you're neurodivergent and didn't get support. Maybe you dropped out to work and don't even have a GED. You're ashamed of your struggles, and never fit in well with a group because everybody thinks you're dumb. Your only friends are down at the bar, and they're also barely literate at best.

Fox News writes at a 4th grade level and tells you that the left hates you for being smarter than them, they just say your dumb because they're jelly of how cool you are. You're not living a luxe life working in an office somewhere, you're out in the real world doing real work, and that means you know how things work, not them.

Maybe you initially did want to give it a fair shake, Momma always said to look at both sides, but leftist theory is written at a college level, and doesn't make any sense to you. You go online to try and figure it out, but the rhetoric online is a mix of people saying that it's your own fault for being poorly educated, that they can't comprehend your struggles so you must be lying about it, that the government would work better if dumb people didn't get a say, that we shouldn't need to dumb things down for morons like you.

Then there's this little group of people over here going "just trust us bro, the group will decide who gets helped, it'll be fair, I promise!"

Would you take that bet?