Just look at the shit people do in video games that have any kind of building mechanic.
Hell, look at any Minecraft server among friends. Instant Socialism.
It was very illuminating when I got more into crafting hobbies and discovered that I'm actually not incapable of working hard, which I thought was my problem all through school. Turns out I can work quite hard, I'm actually just incapable of pretending to give a shit about being someone's peon.
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We are all at different stages in our leftist journey. In the Imperial Core, where "Antiwork" flourishes, most are separated enough from the worst of super-exploitation that liberalism is thoroughly engrained.
Becoming class aware yet lacking theory is where Antiwork meets. It's up to good Socialists to educate these almost-leftist liberals and gain comrades.
Oh and also the whole environment is set up badly, and deliberately dehumanizing
Unto Others has a great section about this. In a bunch of studied tribes who live generally pre-industrial lifestyles, the anthropologists were interested in how they "organize" big projects like building a house, and when they watched them, wondered what made them so willing to just do it.
Long story short, they saw how the kids watched them and subsequently "played" at doing things like building houses, carrying things together, etc. They essentially concluded that the "work" they did was understood more like play--that without any coercion to labor beyond meeting their needs, they were surprisingly eager to do that boring stuff because they made it into the day's activity rather than grinding "work."
TL;DR unalienated labor schniff and so on
the problem was never work, the problem is alienated work
exactly
I agree and to the point, but living in a communist country for more than 15 years I can tell you that the answer is not socialism/communism for sure!
When all the stuff is all "ours" the fact is nothing is yours while everything that supposedly is collective/ours is really degraded and not yours.
In the same time, the few have everything and no rules apply to them.
Read about Nicolae Ceausescu!
Having grown up in USSR, I disagree entirely. Whatever problems existing socialist countries have are far better ones to have than the horrors of capitalism. Of course, there are always egoists who managed to get theirs and lack basic empathy for others who prefer the new realities of capitalism.
I remember like it was yesterday:
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You could NOT travel anywhere except on very exceptional conditions and only in the communist countries of the communist block. Also being paid very poorly one could not really afford any travel!
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You would not own anything and that did not make no one happy! The land, the house nothing was yours all was owned by the state.
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You could not aford to pay for a car and you could theoretically buy a car in almost a lifetime using a social credit system which was bad and poorly implemented;
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grocery stores were empty;
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food was bad and very scarce;
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We were getting in a line, in a row, the nights before when we had a rumor that the delivery trucks will come the next day. All the food was sold, based on a food ticket from the truck and the food products were never reaching the shelves in the grocery shop;
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One family was only allowed to have only 1 bottle of of cooking oil and 1 pack of butter per MONTH, taken that ticket IF these would be available at the grocery store and if you got the ticket!
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The quality of any product was very bad, but you would not notice because there was nothing to compare to;
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The people had work, but most were just doing really just the minimum to get the payment which was not much and the quality of work was very poor in almost all industries. Also understand the timeline. In 1980's the kind of jobs that people worked today may not exist at all because of technology! So if you would have communism today, most people would have very limited types of work! (You will see soon... Say Hello to Artificial Inteligence!)
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Most people were very corrupted, because they need to EAT so a lot of underground market was taken place for those who dared because:
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IF you SAY or did ANYTHING which was not inline with the communist party you would be incarcerated and beaten to death...
I will stop here as there are so many other important aspects...
Lived in Romania for almost 50 years and I know how communism is so NO, THANK YOU!
**Also understand that even if you would have communism today it would not be the same type of communism as the TECHNOLOGY CHANGES EVERYTHING! **
I invite you to learn more about China's social credit system and WeChat app! Also look into T. digital id... it is at least "interesting": https://piped.video/watch?v=PxvNzzgoJX8&t=7
Hope you will find my insights helpful and keep this comment!
Be well!
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