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Sorry, are we on the same platform? All I see from the communists are cringe memes and even cringier “debates” that would get them laughed out of a middle school debate club.
I'll bite.
Communism has always been about the future. When Lenin and Marx wrote their books and birthed their movements, they wrote about manufacturing processes EVENTUALLY eliminating material needs and displacing most people from work. They were kinda right at the time seeing the textile industry replace thousands of weavers with machines and the advent of powered farming equipment. What they didn't account for was the industrial revolution actually adding jobs to the workforce and for a time, jobs being replaced were reliably being replaced with other skilled positions.
But that hasn't been true since the 90s, since then there has been a marked trend towards automation replacing jobs, and slowly, a lot of the human populace is becoming useless.
I think most serious full on commies like myself understand that it's still a future form of governance that's inevitable if we want livable conditions. If we continue to have the almost pure and unbridled capitalistic system we have in the US when automated driving, AI, and general purpose robots really kick off, there will be some pretty serious issues.
Without getting too into doxxing myself, my family runs a construction company and builds houses. Have you seen the concrete 3d printers by chance? My dad was smart enough to get 2 a few years ago. Not only did it cut material costs by about 50% in construction, we went from running a 20 man crew to a 4 man crew when running those things. On top of that we can do what we did in weeks in a few days at best. We still run traditional crews, but those days are numbered, for sure.
We'll need communism because, one day very soon, a huge number of us are going to be unemployable. Hell, DEEP BLUE out of IBM already has a higher diagnostic rate than human doctors. The US Department of Labor and Goldman Sachs are estimating 300mil - 600mil will be replaced with current AI tech, the biggest losses will be in call centers, and what's left of secretarial workers.
I am not reading all that shit dog
How would you know it's dog shit unless you read it? People like you are infuriating. It's never "what you said is wrong because..." but always "I'm not reading this [because it'll cause me too much cognitive dissonance]." You can't actually engage in a discussion, instead assuming you must be right because it's the ideas you were taught as a child. It's a religion, where you'd rather have unquestiining faith instead of engage the argument.
If you're correct, there's nothing to be afraid of. If you're wrong then maybe your ideas will be improved instead of staying in ignorance.
Lol I don't care what you have to say commie
If that makes you feel better...
It doesn't make anything you believe correct or accurate though.
Replying again to note you just said this: "People are straight up slaves to consooming. They'll find any excuse to justify it even on a damn piract sub."
You're here complaining about communism while also talking about consumption being unethical...
I'm assuming you're just a troll, but if not what's going on? Do you need someone to talk to? Are you OK?
And here, everyone, is exhibit A as to why critical thinking is going down the drain globally.