Rational Radical

Thanks. Glad to know that someone appreciates it.

Oh, it's just a random Mossi man.

Ice

Well, doctors put far more time, education, etc into their profession, so of course, they should be compensated more. However, socialists realize that both of their work is useful to society, and neither of them should be left out on the street.

Well, I take the position of Marx, who somewhat unenthusiastically supported labor vouchers to be used in the lower stage of communism, but everyone to have free-access of goods and services in the higher stage of communism.

With regards to an immediate gift economy, I think that it is essential to remember what they are really about. It is not about exchange of goods per se, but about fostering/strengthening social relationships. I think some kind of system should function (according to custom of a specific community) to some degree in order to avoid free-riding. Of course it would have to be mixed with some sort of accounting/inventory/logistics system so that its can be scaled.

Oh, and we're outlawing tea.

USSA*. Damn those Russians, always stealing my ideas!

Not as golden as the empire state building will be when I turn it into my personal Ameriko-Kremlin heaquarters as lead-chairman of the USSR! PRAISE SOCIALISM!

Never heard of them...