Quality AI would simply tell you that pure communism always fails for very simple reasons: We are not equal - some people can achieve vastly superior results and some can barely achieve anything. Some put more effort, some put less. It is grossly unfair and unproductive to punish success and reward laziness by pooling everyone's results and distributing them equally and not according to effort. Most tax systems already do that to an extent anyway with progressive tax brackets, but they stop around 50% precisely because people would have no incentive to work beyond that bracket. Pure communism means 100% income tax which is then distributed to everybody - at 100% income tax what's your incentive to work? might as well fake disability or illness or otherwise excuse yourself. Corruption - where there's communism, there's corruption. If you take away everything from the people and give it to the state (people at the top) to distribute as they please it creates the possibility and temptation for them to hoard some or all of it and keep it to themselves. This always happens with communism. Black markets and crime - if the government takes 100% tax then the only option for people to get ahead is by either working under the table and hiding their income, and that leads to more crime. Bribes - when nobody gets wages (or the wages aren't enough) it is incredibly temptin and common for people in key positions to accept bribes for favors. No private innovation - there is a limit to how much the government can innovate by itself, but if there is no incentive to start your own business and follow your dreams then no one innovates. Neither China nor Vietnam are economically communist - they are communist in that they are ruled by one party and in general things are directed top-down, however their economies are socially-oriented market economies. The government may intervene as they see fit and encourage industries they favor (by huge loans for example in China's case), but the market itself is fueled by private innovation. Chinese pay significantly less income taxes than workers in developed countries. Where DOES communist work? small - very small: your family. Most families pool and share resources essentially making them a small commune. Some might even share with siblings and even cousins (for example a big country ranch). And some might even share among a few or many families - for example a kibbutz. But that's where things get murky - the larger you go, the more likely you are to run into the same inherent problems. People care dearly about their spouse and kids and family, but they care less about other families, and even less about strangers. Bottom line: communism inherently encourages people to be lazy, innovate less, and be more corrupt. Free market economies encourage the opposite - those who work hard and innovate get ahead, and opportunities for corruption are more limited. Developed countries became developed exactly because they are free market economies. Kids these days are being brainwashed by marxist ideas and leftist communism nonsense in the very countries that benefited the most from free markets, it's ridiculous.
