I lived in communism for 19 years. It wasn't nice. It was - gently put - a failed experiment. That's probably the reason I cringe whenever I hear anything about "guaranteeing" some income to everybody.
What you're saying, basically, is that you will allocate the production means based on merit, but then you will allocate the resulted production evenly? Or you will allocate a "minimum survival kit"?
My life experience tells me that the problems are not there, but deep down, at the core of the human being. Greed is a problem. Lack of compassion is a problem. If there's an economic system that can fix that, I'd be very curious to try it out.
I agree, communism doesn't work and neither does capitalism as they are expressed via today's governments.
If only we had some sort of set of principles that combines Anarchy and Capitalism!
Communism don't work just because we don't have enough good robots then. =) When robots will be able to do all of the work it's can work very well. =)
Well, not really. It must be fixed at the human level, namely who you are, not how much do you have. In communism we were supposed to have all access equally to the resources, but people are different, they want different things, so in the end the balance was tilted.