• Throwaway@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Let’s take a second. How exactly would communism work? What if someone didn’t want to work?

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      1 year ago

      I love how this question ignores the consequences of not working in the current system, and that modern forms of forced labor are both common and do exist.

      And inb4 you reply: no, I don’t support communism but your question made me chuckle.

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        1 year ago

        You can go beg and be homeless in the current system. In Communism, you get sent to gulag.

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      1 year ago

      I want to own the value I produce. Currently I sell my time to an owner. The value I produce through my work is sold by the owner. Any excess after costs goes to the owner. The owner did not work to produce the value.

      Why should owners be supported by the excess value produced by workers?

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      1 year ago

      If there genuinely, no matter what, is no way to get someone to work on something without threatening them with starving to death if they don’t do it, please ask yourself this: Is that work necessary? Is that work worth it?