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by baal80spam 326 days ago
> needs-based allocation systems

This one is a fantasy, which communism (that I lived in) had shown many times.

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Communism was never post scarcity; if there is basically infinite of whatever we need, nothing that we have seen before applies anymore.
If there’s infinite of whatever you need, you don’t need needs-based allocation. It can be entirely wants-based.
Your communism didn't include replicators and cheap energy to run them.