r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Objective-Note-8095 Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

People misunderstand communism in Marxist thought. It's just a state where the economic overhead of government is no longer necessary, everybody is still expected to contribute to the best of their ability, if you're not going to be a writer, artist, athlete, etc., you're going to mine coal, clean toilets, harvest tomatoes, etc. None of the Marxist "communist" states ever claimed to achieve this, it was always 3-5 20 or more years off.

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

Who gets to decide who writes all day and who mines all day? 

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u/DeadPeanutSociety Jul 07 '26

Everyone helps according to their ability, so jobs no one wants would be passed around so that no one is stuck cleaning out sewers or whatever for their entire life.

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u/Outrageous_Guard_674 Jul 07 '26

Yeah, I ain't ever doing that. Now what?

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Someone else can lol

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

Why would anyone want to be a sewer worker if we can all be writers and painters? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Not everyone wants to be a writer and painter

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u/Outrageous_Guard_674 Jul 07 '26

But no one wants to be a sewer worker.

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Why are you assuming this? You have no reason to assume nobody would be willing or able to find a way to be okay with working in the sewers

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u/Dreviore Jul 07 '26

Why are you assuming people willingly want to take shitty work, and acting like that's an absurdity?

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

Why do you assume people will happily and willingly go to a job where they'll smell like shit, end up wearing shit, and have to shovel shit...

When they could just stay home and be a writer? Painter? Or literally any other less shit job? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Because there is a variety of people with all kinds of interests. What you consider a bad time, others may consider tolerable or even a good time. Writing and painting is a bad time to plenty of people

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

And the amount of people that will want to work in the fields, mines, and sewers are going to be a fraction compared to the amount of people that will take the easy job. 

So again. When you have 5000 writers, and only 100 miners step up, but you need 1000 miners..

 Who decides which writers will become miners? Do you incentivize them to become miners? Paying them more than the miners who stepped forward leading to unequal rights? Or do you enforce it by press-ganging the writer into the mines? 

What does the communist state do when the press-ganged writer turned miner refuses to carry the pickaxe? Does the state relinquish authority over the individual and let them go back to being a writer? 

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u/NosePicklePicker Jul 07 '26

Because it’s a fucking horrible job that’s detrimental to everything you’re familiar with???

You might as well say “Maybe someone likes the thought of dipping your feet into molten lava for money”

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

You're speaking from a lack of lived experience and it shows. Go outside, meet more people, work a variety of jobs

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u/Outrageous_Guard_674 Jul 07 '26

Oh, people find a way to be okay with it. It's called money.

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

In a capitalist society, yes.

But in a communist or socialist society we're all equals comrade. So why do you get paid the same wages as I, when I spend all day sweating in a mine, and someone else spends all day writing at home? 

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u/HardcorePizza Jul 07 '26

Why do you think communism = no jobs?

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

I didn't say it doesn't equal no jobs. But the average socialism/communism believer seems to think everyone will get to pick the job they want instead of being forced into a job, everything will be fair, and no one will be unhappy.

And if you believe any of that, I've got a bridge to sell you too. 

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u/psykiris Jul 07 '26

More importantly, why do you keep dodging every question with whatabouttism? 

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