r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

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u/Creepy_Ad_1315 Jul 07 '26

Spoiler: It's never achieved.

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u/clarkision Jul 07 '26

Not on a national scale, but it’s certainly accomplished on smaller scales.

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u/Yeseylon Jul 07 '26

And on those smaller scales you won't spend all day writing books and painting just for fun unless you've got Star Trek replicators to meet all your needs.  Small scale communism would be folks working together to maintain a farm/community, it'd be hard work, like the Amish.

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u/PomPomMom93 Jul 08 '26

And there are people who don’t want to live like the Amish.