>>15848762the ideal of communism, as in "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," is unattainable fantasy
you cannot translate services into goods unless you have some sort of arbitrary value that converts them, i.e. Money.
so either
>people exchange goods and services for moneythis is not what you would call communism
>or the government sets the value of goods and servicesand every time that's been tried, they decided they were the most important, and everyone else can starve and die
>b-b-but what if the government were all nice, smart peoplein that case we could just stick to the current, already functional system
