Does anybody here have an interest in macroeconomics?

[rva_jeremy]

Communism, with no printed money, unfortunately, is not possible when absolute majority of the people are STS. You'd need large percentage to be STO for communism to work.

That's only true if there's not enough to go around. But our economy produces more than enough to meet everybody's basic needs, easily. It's not as big of a deal that people have too much if nobody has too little. A system that put a floor on accumulation -- that made sure nobody could fall below a certain means -- could still function even if there were STS folks trying to grab as much stuff as possible. We have lots of government-directed redistribution in our current system chock full of STS people, so we're not talking about flipping to a completely different dynamic so much as shifting it 45 degrees.

The issue for me isn't how communism could work with STS people but how we'd get to communism or something like it with STS people. And I'm using communism loosely -- roughly speaking, this is just socialism, sans all the Marxist-Leninist dogma.