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Communism is worth humoring when we have full on robot automation to make up our work force.

Until then, the reality is, 99% of jobs suck and people only do them because they need the money, and if everything paid the same, everyone would just want work the piss easy jobs that require little effort, and society would collapse, as we NEED people doing these harder jobs.

What incentivizes people to do the harder jobs vs the easier jobs? Different compensation.

It's also why UBI won't work until we have slave robots. If its too much, people just won't work and society will crumble, and if it's too little it's basically meaningless and inflation will adjust around it most likely anyways.

Pure Communism requires a form of psuedo slavery/fascism to work as the only way a system that is actually functional and could last would work without robots to keep society running and everyone gets equal wealth distribution, is the government would have to pick your job for you, whether you like it or not, and if you stop doing this job the government picked for you, the ramifications would have to be severe: prob cut you off from all government benefits and income. A system that rewards lazy people and people who work equally will result in everyone being lazy and the system collapsing. That's basic common sense. If I could get paid the same for sitting on couch and playing video games vs going to work, I'd obviously pick the former.

There's also the factor that people will rebel if they're getting paid the same and their job is super hard to someone who's job is super easy and it's literally just dumb luck that decides who gets the easy jobs, which is another reason pure communism requires psuedo slavery/fascism to actually work.

I'd prefer free market capitalism to this. I'm equally fucked in both systems if I'm lazy and don't work and I can control the type of work I do to compensation ratio accordingly.

Right now I'm young and saving, so I can work a job that is a bit more stressful but will compensate me better, and later in life when I'm on retirement savings, maybe I'll work a more fun less stressful job that will almost certainly compensate worse.