So your "solution" is expecting people to work without the benefit of pay or a chance to rise in station in the world (it being a classless society) – that people who do not work will make just as much as those who do work? You must have great faith in the purity of human nature if you expect everyone to altruistic work for the common good with nothing in it for them, hold hands, and sing koom-bye-ya. Classless societies have been attempted before in history (yes I mean TRUE classlessness, not just a socialist dictator and a political ruling class dictating the lives of peasants, which is what socialism USUALLY leads to) take for example the Pilgrims at Plymouth. They had an anarchy-marxist system like you advocate for going where there was no government but a private enforcement arm forced everyone to share the produce of their farms. There was no private property, no one was allowed to be more successful than anyone else, and all this was enforced without a government. Well in about six months they discovered anarchy-marxism didn't have much to it (I mean to say "anarcho" but it keeps auto-correcting me). Everyone was starving to death and no one was working. So they introduced private property rights and didn't have the private enforcement arm setting a ceiling on success and BANG the population exploded and Massachusetts became a highly profitable colony that eventually led the War of Independence. Take also Jamestown, where the same exact thing happened. Anarcho-marxism has been attained before and it's never been good.
@VulcanMan6 5mos5MO
Firstly, I find it interesting how you assume "classlessness" must mean an equality of outcome, and also your assumption that "a chance to rise in station" must mean holding power over others. I disagree with both. Classlessness does not inherently mean that everyone and everything must be completely equal, it merely means that all people have equal access to the same means of opportunity and decision-making (aka equality of opportunity). Two people who have different levels of "wealth" but equal levels of access to resources and decision-making power are not in different "classes", because "class" in a socio-economic context is about ownership over the means of production, not of how much money or "stuff" that you have/get. So no, I don't expect everyone in a classless society to inherently make the same amount of money regardless of work or skill, but I do expect every worker to share equal ownership over the profits they produce and equal decision-making power within their own workplaces and communities, because that'sRead more