Just because good-natured "regular" people participate in the broader system of exploitation does not mean that they are earning what they get, not at all, myself included.
I benefit from huge luck. Luck about when and where I was born, luck about education opportunities, luck of genetics. In addition I benefit from direct effects and side effects of government spending, publicly funded university research, basic infrastructure, and all manner of support staff.
The cumulative "product" I make is not my own. It's a function mostly of just how lucky I am, and also significantly a function of the whole Lorentzian field of infrastructure/productivity/opportunity/civility that I'm enveloped in because of a whole bunch of people doing jobs that they are deeply underpaid for.
Except it happens all the time by unelected leaders of major corporations.
For example, when there is no alternative to say Comcast in your neighbourhood and they can charge whatever they want and you need internet access for work, they are taxing you.
And I don't know about you but I must have missed the election where I get to choose who is in charge of Comcast, or any of the other regional monopolies[1] run by "producers" that we sadly depend on.
[1] Health insurance, banks, pharmaceutical companies, grocery store chains...
That sounds great except in practical terms there's little that can be done.
Who cares if it's government to blame or the corporations, the problem remains the same.