Three questions

Question 1: How come socialists and other modern offspring of them build their whole political existence on economic equality? Isn't there more to life than money?

The question is simple but I haven't seen an answer so far that didn't fill up books.

Question 2: How can it be, in the light of the horrible experience men have with trying to force on a certain distribution of wealth/freedom, that people still lean to the Left? Is it simply so that economic equality must be enforced because that's simply the right thing to do? Is it so that people can't be trusted to build a free society without some pre- or post-demands on how wealth, freedom and opportunities distribute among individuals?

I have never seen or heard of a politician succeeding in enforcing a certain pattern upon a society without horrible consequences. Must we try again and again? When will the Left prove itself wrong if the whole 20th century didn't do the trick?

Question 3: How is it possible to separate between personal freedom and economic freedom? If I choose to spend my time on work, how is someone taking a part of my earnings away without asking me first not an attack on my personal freedom?

Socialists say they have no objections when it comes to free people choosing their own lifestyles, words and activities. Still they want to remove a part of one man's fruits of labor and hand over to someone else, and not call it a restriction on personal freedom!