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Originally posted by lordjeebus
I've always liked the concept of true communism. But I acknowledge that a shift in the near future would not work.
The key question is whether people must be motivated by material incentive. I do not believe that such motivation is intrinsic to people on birth -- I believe it is culturally learned. But the fact of the matter is almost everyone operates under this form of motivation, and it is a belief system that is incompatible with true communism.
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Since children are naturally thieves, and you spend a great deal of your time telling them to share and that they can't have everything they want, I don't think its a learned response
Perhaps the reason it is ubiquitous is that it is intrinsic.