User blog comment:Centrist16/SOMETHING EVERYONE MUST KNOW/@comment-3398633-20150809140026/@comment-1045231-20150812225654

1. That's another rare exception to the rule. This would be possible under socialism, because people can cooperate to do that, if enough people are willing to do it too (or if he can automate it, etc.). Under the current system, it's an autocracy. Profits are theft from workers. People cooperatively create jobs in socialism, and if there are too few, then hours can be reduced or more jobs added that society democratically determines would be good.

2. What? They're collectively controlled, rather than controlled by the few. You can get rid of overproduction by reducing hours. Introducing pay inequality would only be democratic, in order to fill vital jobs that are underfilled. How's that hilarious?

3. Again. Not socialist (except Yugoslavia, which was only borderline so). And even if they were, it's just one model, and we have three+ others to try. Also, some studies have suggested that the Eastern block's productivity wasn't bad.

4. I don't want to repeat myself again.

5. It's not socialist.

6. They're biased, and/or perverted the definition of socialism.