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 You keep arguing against me like I'm making communist assertions. Its like all the capitalist propaganda you're repeating is calibrated against communism and you can't make pro capitalist arguments unless the opposition is communist. Stop repeating the shit you read by rote. 
 Okay, then take a fucking position & make a solid point. You keep arguing around the issues & making communist assertions against capitalism while claiming you haven't said anything at all. If you don't even know what you believe then there is nothing for us to argue about. 
 I'm criticising capitalism. You assume any criticism of it is communist. You're stuck.

Here's a position: if owning a human being is wrong then renting a human being with a wage is wrong as well. If one of the core tenets of capitalism was the abolishment of the wage system then I could get behind it. 
 Are people not allowed to sell their labor in any form or fashion they choose? If someone doesn't know how long a  thing will take & WANTS to be paid by the hour are you going to tell them they can't do that? 
 I'm not mindlessly repeating anything.

Do you understand that human interactions are either voluntary or coercive?