Some people chose to put their assets to work for later and others to sell their assets for cash right now. Why shouldn't people be allowed to make those decisions?

If you're starving, why shouldn't you be allowed to sell yourself into a lifetime of slavery in exchange for a meal today?

Shock therapy transition to capitalism plan meant people did not do the first choice. There were no choice, literally. Workers got shares in the companies they worked for without any alternative (get your share or continue receiving your salary).

Exactly.

Ditto for the goons. If your main skill is sociopathic violence and physical strength, why not use those your talents to intimidate and exploit the workers for your boss’s benefit?

Do you really, genuinely believe that these people had credible options, and were not deliberately coerced and engineered into desperate economic conditions in order to squeeze them into selling their shares for a pittance?