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@VinegarChunks@lemmus.org

2026-10-09 23:03 UTC

How does a nonauthoritarian communist society handle a billionaire who buys up income-generating property and pays people to run it for the billionaire’s main benefit? Let’s also assume he pays people to be security guards for this operation.

Replies (3)

  • @4am@lemmy.zip 2026-10-09 23:23

    Property’s not for sale dumbass, it’s a communist society. Property is owned collectively by all the people and the state’s job (yes you need the organization of a state) is to distribute that profit among the people. Any power is acquired via being elected (which is the “doesn’t have to be authoritarian” part so many temporarily embarrassed millionaires ignore) and punishment for self dealing from a position of power is treated as treason In short: care is taken that an owning class cannot ever develop.

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  • @andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 2026-10-09 23:54

    This is such a weird question. How does this billionaire exist in this hypothetical communist society? And how do you expect them to buy up a business? It’s these weird pointless thought exercises people keep throwing at me that drive me to make these posts. If you really want to know what my desired society looks like, it’s this solarpunk game my friends and I play: Fully Automated! Solarpunk RPG World Guide Go read that, find all the stuff you don’t like in it, then write Substack article about it and don’t send me a link.

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  • @floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-09 23:28

    If there are billionaires it’s not a communist society is it now?

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