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Thanatos_the_Great posted...

That's not what communism is.

One of your biggest complaints about capitalism is wealth inequality, so if communism doesn't fix it, it hurts the basis of many of your arguments.

Because of course everyone is able to choose exactly what job they want under capitalism. /s

Moreso than they would under pure communism.

Also, that's also not what communism is, because communism means there is no government

People controlling the means of production would almost certainly need to fall under a sort of centralized, organized group of people that would be considered a government, even if it doesn't mirror what our government would be.

communism is what remains when the socialist state has become redundant and withered away.

Which hasn't happened so there's no need for communism, and nothing suggests communism would take over under these conditions either.

(That's not a theory I subscribe to, I'm not a communist, but if you're going to criticise communism you need to have a basic idea of what it is, and it appears you don't.)

Oh lord, nothing is more obnoxious than dumb pseudo elitists arbitrarily gate keeping their head canon philosophies while not properly explaining how tf their imaginary fake ass system that doesn't exist in any real world context is going to exist.

All you've done this entire time is point out that capitalism isn't perfect. That does not mean you have proven why communism is better

Except you can't,

More absolutes. No one in the planet is qualified to do every job, so me truly having ANY job I wanted is obviously not true.

However, I still have far more job options than I would under pure communism.

because your employer (unless it's a workers' cooperative) keeps part of what would be proper compensation for your labour. That's what profit is.

And they're entitled to profit. They spent the money and took the risk to create the company that added the value to society to generate the revenue in which I get a slice of the pie for working for them.

The million dollar question is how much profit is too much profit, but a lot of people like you seem to think business owners should just take all the financial risk of starting a business and proceed to work for free.

Another work around to this is every company could be publically owned and everybody gets paid in stock, so they have as much skin in the game as the business they are working for, but a lot of people just don't want that. It also doesn't fix wealth inequality, the big boogie man that people like to criticize capitalism for, as that simply creates even worse wealth inequality with simply more winners but more losers as well.