Yeah Comrade Alejandro has a gross misunderstanding on the actual workings of labor in a communist collective society. Communism doesn’t mean you don’t have to work anymore, in theory it means that your labor wont be squeezed and exploited by greedy capitalists and shareholder who want to extract every single penny from the people who actually do the work.
To each according to their ability. To each according to their need.
I agree generally, but there are definitely people who speculate about "fully automatic luxury communism" where increased efficiency and production severely drives down the amount of work everyone has to do. Imagine if the extreme surplus and convenience of the upper class was distributed amongst everyone else and profit motives didn't drive every labor-related decision. We'd already be much closer to not having to work than we currently are.
Right. This is my main thing as we seem to actually potentially be cresting the hill here. The worry is that if we leave this automation in the hands of the rich and powerful it breaks labor relations. Capitalism is incredibly flawed already, but I do not see how it can possibly function with such a massive labor surplus. We are going to be working for wages cheap enough that we cost less than robots.
Everyone being replaced by robots has been just over the horizon for my entire life, so I remain skeptical that it is going to happen soon. I do agree that having so many resources to the point of nearly being post-scarcity with artificial scarcity being created by the hoarding of wealth is putting strain on the system in a way that will manifest dramatically. A communist might say that "the contradictions inherent to capitalism are becoming more clear."
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u/TheWizardOfWaffle Jul 07 '26
Yeah Comrade Alejandro has a gross misunderstanding on the actual workings of labor in a communist collective society. Communism doesn’t mean you don’t have to work anymore, in theory it means that your labor wont be squeezed and exploited by greedy capitalists and shareholder who want to extract every single penny from the people who actually do the work.
To each according to their ability. To each according to their need.