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When I was a kid, I noticed that I was consistently finishing My work early, so I asked the teacher for the next lesson's work. I wanted to speed through the entire year's coursework and finish early so I could have an extended summer.
Teacher said no, but I got My wish in the end. I got to skip an entire year of school. Didn't get any more summer, though.
When I was a child, I was told that Communism failed because it gave no incentive for people to work hard and better themselves and their society. After all, if everyone is paid the same and has a guaranteed job, why worker harder than than anyone else? As an adult, I learned the same thing applies to workers in capitalist societies. In most companies, there is little reason to do more than the bare minimum needed to keep from getting fired. Promotions never happen as companies prefer to hire externally. Real raises and bonuses don't happen; you have to move companies to get a real raise. And of course, workers don't get any direct reward for working more. The owners just pocket all the profits and tell you to work harder.
I turns out both American Capitalism and Soviet Communism wasted colossal amounts of human potential.
Meanwhile Australian communists created an agricultural system so efficient that their daily work only took a few hours, and they could spend most of the day sitting around and talking. Early Europeans remarked on how little the Aboriginal people worked and called their existence "miserable", but I wish I had as much free time as a precolonial Australian.