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It's called "describing the reality of capitalist economy" not "being a communist"
The reality of capitalist economies has turned out to be: Living in the freest and richest nations the world has ever seen. If you’re too hot you can set the thermostat to cool down and if you’re too cold you can just turn the heat up.
You have ample choices for food, leisure and activity. More than anyone else has ever had in all of human history.
You only need to work a fraction of an hour for a meal, instead of all day long (and often working for days on end and not ever bringing home anything to eat)
You’re the most comfortable any human has ever been. Surviving is so easy for you, you feel the need to complain that ITS NOT EASY ENOUGH.
Those advances were not created by capitalism.
They were created during capitalism. Huge difference.
Slavery didn't create agriculture.
Feudalism didn't create brickwork.
Well let’s just say that none of these things were created during communism
...and? That's kind of pointless to say. We're living under capitalism, so of course it happened under capitalism. It can't magically happen under communism if we're not living in communism, can it?
Also, while not communist (though nominally aimed towards it), elsewhere in the world, socialist governments definitely managed to achieve incredible feats of modernisation in starkly short amounts of time. Both China and the USSR went from mainly peasant farmers to industrial giants in mere decades.
People work and create because it's what humans do, under any economic system. What changes is who it's made for and who profits. Under capitalism, it's made for capitalists to profit them. Under communism, it's made for fellow workers to profit the workers.