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Also, taxes aren't theft. You get something in return for it, usually services and infrastructure. Dad didn't give anything back for the stolen Duplos. Says my dog.

(Oh, and please tell your dog I said hi.)

I mean those look like off brand building bricks. Also duplo is a lego brand

Duplo is just as much "Lego" as Technic is. They're all made by the same company.

That isn't just any duplo, it's specifically LEGO Duplo. That's like calling Word word instead of Microsoft Word or Chrome chrome instead of Google Chrome. What about Linux instead of ***/Linux?

Your dog should take extra lessons. How's it passing school not knowing this?

What ruined Reddit is the enshitification.

As far as the people themselves go... A message board is a message board. People on Lemmy hate to hear it, but there is no difference between Reddit and Lemmy in that regard. Lemmy's population is just smaller.

Many things ruined Reddit. So many things.

Ok, that's a solid reference even if I won't read those anymore. Kudos.

Something that produces goods or services.

For example, a musician makes music as a service, and that music can be made into a commodity either with a packaged good such as a book of sheet music or a method of storing the music (a file or disc), or you can sell tickets to hear the music.

What does “means of production” even mean

In Marxist theory, the "means of production" refers to the physical inputs used to produce goods and services. This includes things like tools, machinery, land, raw materials, and factories. Essentially, it's everything needed to carry out the process of production, excluding human labo

I write software. The software that I write don't belong to me. The owner of the software I write makes money of it. It's "means of production" and the product itself simultaneously.

it’s impossible to have “fair compensation” without uprooting commodity production, doing away with money completely and instead producing things to fulfill everyone’s needs. Only then can things truly be “fair”.

That's Communism, not socialism. Sure, socialism has some similarities to Capitalism, that's because Socialism was never the end goal, but a transition period between Capitalism and Communism.

workers have to exploit themselves by reducing their wages

Workers don't 'exploit' themselves, workers decide if it's worth doing the work for what they can reasonably expect in return or not. If they decide it is worth it, it's something they chose for themselves, not even close to the same thing as a Capitalist squeezing every last cent of 'profit' from you as they possibly can and basically forcing you to do it by making it impossible to survive if you don't.

A person under this system also can’t make full value of their labor, simply because there’s taxes that are used to fund public sectors such as education, healthcare, etc (it’s necessary though).

They still get the full value of their labor. Taxes used to benefit the community benefit workers as well, because they are members of the commuity. Capitalists under capitalism still (are supposed to) pay taxes- and so do workers. Workers who are more fairly compensated for their work and have to pay taxes are better off than a wage slave who isn't fairly compensated and still has to pay taxes.

That is the comparison to make, is Socialism better than Capitalism? Yes. Is Communism better than Socialism? Yes. It makes little sense to tell workers trapped in a Capitalistic system that Socialism isn't good because it's not as good as Communism.

People also are different, some can work more intensely with higher tempo due to how they’re built, and others might not be able to put in the same amount of labor

That's exactly why you don't try and be little capitalists. You can and should still care for people who are in that situation. Workers who receive a more fair share of their labor will be better equipped to help out the members of the community who are less fortunate than them, not less.

it doesn’t abolish capital

No, and it's not supposed to. It just transfers it to the people and takes it out of the hands of the ruling class. "Capital" in an of itself isn't a bad thing, It's when Capital exclusively owned by a small ruling class and used to exploit and siphon wealth from the working class (Capitalism) that's when it becomes a problem.

I asked my cat about this, and he said,

"You're literally describing capitalism, Ruairidh. Do you not pay taxes, you dumb fuck? Now scratch my head, just a little, and then give me treats."

Hell yeah!

But also the dad was so stupid from Trumptard brainwashing and AI brain rot that he was unable to read the 5-line paragraph that his toddler authored, so the message was never received anyway.