you must give zakat in something you can make profit from
Here is the productive wealth which zakat is levied upon, copied from
This website
1. Gold and silver in whatever form they may be as coins, jewellery, cash, banknotes, utensils etc.
2. Articles of merchandise.
3. Certain livestock that graze freely for most of the year for the purpose of milk and procreation, as camels, cows, buffaloes, goats and sheep.
4. Land produce as wheat, dates, vegetables, fruits
Gold and silver is still valuable in a communist society even without money, so is the rest of that list excluding cash
In my opinion the accumulation of wealth is not a bad thing Uthman Bin Affan (RA) was very wealthy and wasn’t ever condemned for it but rather he was praised. This was a conversation better suited for
@Teeri-Alpha I am not much of an economist. I am a business man who more or less preys on poorer africans I know my place
At least you're honest. yes the accumulation of wealth isn't an absolute evil thing as long as you're paying enough zakat, but as we saw time and time again there will always be more greedy millionaires than philanthropic ones, and we're way passed Affan's era, the population has increased by billions now which makes hoarding that much more catastrophic