In the case of hierarchies, the alternative would be for there to be no reason for people to want to form hierarchies; although it is in my belief that simple hierarchies can be good, massive hierarchies where just a few people employ several thousand other people and rake in massive amounts of profits, is not necessarily a good thing, as this leads to a concentration of power.  What state socialists often forget is that, though they want to spread the wealth around, they like to do this with the bigger concentration of power, which leads to the wealth getting sucked into the black hole of government and their efforts are all for nothing.