It’s a visceral protection mechanism against leftist mob violence and groupthink that always ends up creating a worse disparity between rich and poor despite leftists claiming the opposite. Robin Hood, remember, was fighting against a thieving government official using his government power to enrich himself: the Sheriff of Nottingham. The more you use government, the more you create such nomenklatura monsters. In America, for example, the gap between rich and poor in Democratic Party states is higher than the gap between rich and poor in Republican Party states.