I want to create a world where each person give according to their ability and take according to their need.
I don’t like the way that line is phrased.
This can very easily lead to overexploitation of all those who are honest and sincere, while helping those who can easily lie.
How so?:
I don’t need an air cooled room or even electricity at my house
I don’t need to have good food, as is proven by me surviving 3+ years overpaying for shitty food
I don’t need access to the Fediverse, or to be able to discuss things with people across the world
I am able to work 13+ hours a day
I am able to work in a place full of toxic fumes, until I die early because of it
I am able to shut up while the politicians masquerading as engineers, dump all the consequences of their wrongdoings onto me
And guess what, so can you, but those who are good at lying, can easily convince the system otherwise.
So while I would want to live a better life, eat better food and do some work for myself, I can’t, because I can, “not do it”.
In the end, it’s all up to execution and there will always be those, who would like to twist the words to get their way.
Communism as an economic system isn’t some genie you have to trick into giving you stuff, or else you’ll be swindled by malicious compliance simply based on the phrase “according to need.” It’s a mode of production characterized by collectivized production and distribution according to a common plan, not a game of semantics.
But people game it nonetheless, one way or another.
As I said, it’s all about the execution. If enough people decide to stop being vigilant, the people that come to replace them will be those, actively sabotaging the system. And after that, vigilance won’t be enough.
I don’t like the way that line is phrased.
This can very easily lead to overexploitation of all those who are honest and sincere, while helping those who can easily lie. How so?:
I don’t need an air cooled room or even electricity at my house
I don’t need to have good food, as is proven by me surviving 3+ years overpaying for shitty food
I don’t need access to the Fediverse, or to be able to discuss things with people across the world
I am able to work 13+ hours a day
I am able to work in a place full of toxic fumes, until I die early because of it
I am able to shut up while the politicians masquerading as engineers, dump all the consequences of their wrongdoings onto me
And guess what, so can you, but those who are good at lying, can easily convince the system otherwise.
So while I would want to live a better life, eat better food and do some work for myself, I can’t, because I can, “not do it”.
In the end, it’s all up to execution and there will always be those, who would like to twist the words to get their way.
Communism as an economic system isn’t some genie you have to trick into giving you stuff, or else you’ll be swindled by malicious compliance simply based on the phrase “according to need.” It’s a mode of production characterized by collectivized production and distribution according to a common plan, not a game of semantics.
But people game it nonetheless, one way or another.
As I said, it’s all about the execution. If enough people decide to stop being vigilant, the people that come to replace them will be those, actively sabotaging the system. And after that, vigilance won’t be enough.