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RE: Profits Are Not Confiscated Product
Nesting stops at 6.
Well, no.
Your 'immutable' human nature has proven to be quite malleable, would you like links to books that can help you understand how wrong you are?
They will be by authors you'll recognize from your studies in crapitalism.
I do not refer to shifting cultural ethics and other niches of "human nature" but rather the immutable facts of what a human being is: a free-will actor which can only know the will of other free will actors through their actions.
The problem with your proposal is it will inevitably result in shortages of some goods and over-production of others. It is more fun to beta-test video games than to clean out a sewer. People will gravitate towards professions which offer the greatest comfort and leisure.
And compounding that is that you cannot know what others' preferences will be. You will not know how much of anything to produce until after it has been consumed (the calculation problem).
This is the immutable human nature I refer to: you can't know my needs and desires until I express them.
If only there were a system for communicating our values so that we can signal production levels...oh wait. There is. It's called "money".