>>117318489>Why do people hate communism or socialism (they're not the same) so much?Because there's overlap.
Because they've been told they're the same.
Because no one can actually agree about just wtf communism actually is.
Because Soviet Russia was scary and the boogeyman for a long long time.
Because we really do have a lot of leeches on society that don't contribute anything.
Because they have to pay for it.
> Soon machine and AI will take all our jobs away and the only thing we'll be able to do is get "free shit".2000.
That's the year US manufacturing productivity went up, while US manufacturing jobs went down. Prior, they always were in lock-step. People making things. Advances before that point let people make more with what they had, but you still needed people. 2000 is when machines started taking away US manufacturing jobs in serious numbers.
We're there.
Food is cheap a fuck. You have to work 10 minutes at a federal minimum wage job to afford 2000 calories.
Clothing is practically free 2nd hand and there's a constant stream of perfectly good clothes being thrown out by the rich.
Housing is a tough one. But beyond that, we live in a society where you don't have to work to survive. You have to work if you want to be comfortable.
I honestly think Karl saw the switch from cottage industry to factory production and saw such huge fucking gains of the industrial revolution that he thought "surely there's enough stuff to go around and provide for everyone". ....But with more stuff, people just want more stuff. Greedy and malcontent. We'll always want more. And while it's a beutiful dream, I think that sort of nature is what makes Star Trek's liberal utopia with a post-scarcity society an impossibility. But it's still nice to imagine.
