whats stopping vlad from growing vegetables or dalis from making furniture in their free time and selling/trading the items, making them much wealthier than their comrades? will anyone confiscate their items and redistribute them? who's going to send vlad and dalis to the gulag for being capitalistic pigs? you can't "legally" force any sort of equality if you have no "legal" body to instate and enforce it
but the CEO of McDonald's won't get billions of dollars for sitting at their desk two days a week signing their name on things
rephrasing what i asked: what/who is stopping a man from purchasing/building his own means of production, starting a company, hiring workers, and expanding to a point of success where he only has to sit at his desk twice a week and sign things in order to earn billions?
Has antifa become some kind of bogeyman for the rightThat's not quite true, communism's ultimate goal is abolishing the state and just having citizens own the means of production.
Communism isn't the idea that everyone has the same amount of wealth, just that there isn't an upper class holding most of the wealth. Doctors will still get paid more than fast food workers, for example, but the CEO of McDonald's won't get billions of dollars for sitting at their desk two days a week signing their name on things
That's not quite true, communism's ultimate goal is abolishing the state and just having citizens own the means of production.
but then why go to medical school? Unless you REALLY want to be a doctor in a communist system, why wouldn't you just go flip burgers if the difference in quality of life for yourself isn't much more at the end of the day? What's the incentive to overachieve?
what's the incentive to overachieve as is? you get a bigger house, more junk, bragging rights.