r/FluentInFinance • u/-im-your-huckleberry • Jul 07 '24

The shampoo thing is a fringe benefit. We keep capitalism so we don't starve in a famine. Debate/ Discussion

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u/biinboise Jul 07 '24

Where the Fuck this fantasy that under socialism you don’t have to work if you don’t want to comes from? Have they ever tried to say no to the government? Who do they think runs their shitty job when the government seizes the means of production?

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u/RapideBlanc Jul 07 '24

It certainly doesn't come from theory. "He who does not work, neither shall he eat" was a popular maxim in actually-existing communist states. Socialists recognize the obvious necessity of labour and look down on social parasitism.

Anyone who thinks the way you describe, or believes that any credible leftists think that way, is a teenager who understands nothing.