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 the sad truth of it is that people need to work to be happy, and fully automated gay luxury VR space communism will continue to be a mosh pit of people trying to get what each other have simply because they don't feel complete unless they're depriving someone else

communism only works on paper because it dismisses core elements of human nature, assuming those behaviors can be re-educated out -- in practice, attempts to erase those behaviors leads to genocide 
 @Doc Scranton @2a48eef0 @bfd3d589 

Communism always works. What it claims to seek is just a decoy to hide its true goals. The decoy goal is never supposed to be accomplished. The true goals get accomplished instead, by design. 
 @8853cd19 @Doc Scranton @bfd3d589 

I disagree. I think people waltz into Communism because egalitarianism sounds good to them.