Rod Speed wrote:
miles wrote
A society that just exists with only the basic essentials to survive.

Mindlessly silly, no society works like that.

Exactly my point. Communism fails for that very reason. Have you been
to Russia? I have. People had the basic essentials of living and
little else. But people were fairly equal, few poor and few rich.
Little incentive to strive towards anything as there were no rewards for
ones hard work. Some has changed since I was there as more western
capitalism has entered.