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  • It’s a bit cliche but the first paragraph of wikipedia says it better than I could:

    Communism (from Latin communis ‘common, universal’)[1][2] is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,[1] whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need.[3][4][5] A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes,[1] and ultimately money[6] and the state.[7][8][9]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

    My description above is just a quick way to point to the things that would change in our lived reality (assuming you live in a western democracy). You wouldn’t have to share your house or car or whatever. Just take responsibility for your workplace with colleagues, just like you vote in a democracy.



  • We don’t have the storage to use solar for base load energy yet.

    Base load is a myth in large connected grids. They have wind and solar. Solar hits the high day demand, wind is always blowing somewhere so there’s nights demand covered as well.

    Methane peaker plants are good until better solutions are cheaper.

    Factories and mills and chip fabs and industrial refrigeration needs to run all the time, and needs reliable constant power.

    They don’t actually necessarily need reliable power if they will get discounts, but that’s somewhat in the future. Industrial refrigeration certainly doesn’t need reliable power at all if they can get variable prices.

    Also peaker plants exist for the few hours per year where prices are at max.