Arguments that comunism was bad? The internet is gushing with info (videos, testimonies, history, you name it) you just have to look at it and consider it.
Convincing somebody over the internet? You don't want to see any other opinion, you just want to pick an argument with me to test your "revolutionary claws" against the "bourgeois" and/or the "imperialist pigs"!
I don't know what you've been through to embrace these ideas and I don't care. I've seen my grandparents believing like you that "the grass is greener" - they got wiser through reality checks. I've seen my parents live in the "Age of Gold" and being disappointed that their whole youth work was in vain, I've experienced some goodies on my own.
And everbody reached the conclusion that:
"In capitalism the man exploits the man, in comunism it's the other way around!"
I can't read the original article but in the context I'm getting (cpi report) the title is either sarcastic or incredibly stupid.
The comunist spin is cringy. Please stop.
In a period where the biggest constant public health threat is obesity and food is wasted by millions of tons each year I somehow stubbornly don't think that the problem with having what to eat is a real.
There are areas in the world where the overpriced iPhone costs more then a persons income for 2 - 3 months or even more. Owning such a device is a matter of status and overcoming low self esteem by association with a famous brand.
Here there is a cesspit of inexperienced communists. That means you are dreaming of something written in books or explained by other dreamers but haven't yourself experience the "superior" lifestyle of the "new man".
I haven't read all the links in detail but at least the statistics concerning my country are total bullshit. They aren't faked but the results are misrepresented in a more perverse and I dare to say "comunist way" (meaning the same practices that dominated my country and society for 45 years).
L.E.: it seems my comment hit a sensitive spot. Thank you!
And I'm not trying to sell to you anything. I never said you can stop working. I never said you can eat dirt.
You can stop working only if someone else has already worked for you accumulating value so you can consume now. Even a big business if going forward only through work. The work of you or of your forefathers that you consume now but someone, sometime had to work.
I'm not coerced, I choose to. I could very well live off the land. The only difference would be the life standard and what I can afford, but hey smartphones, internet and restaurants are a first world luxuries not real life needs.
I asked sapient_cogbag who would do the automation work he likes to be implemented? Because someone has to get up in the morning and actually do that work, it doesn't grow on it's own.
And you're asking me about threats of starvation and homelessness ... I don't get it ...
You're right.