I ' ve been known to fuck myself too ! <| sep |> I ' m not too proficient in the specifics but I have some understanding . You can check out rsocialism 101 for better answers . I ' ll try to address what I can . My question with this is , what incentive is there to try and overachieve if my earnings and lands will either be heavily taxed to the point where I will have the same standard of life if I did not try and overachieve , culminating in something awesome like sliced bread ? The main incentive in a communist society is the relaxation of work hours , enforcement of maximum working hours , holidays , sick leave etc . You would have a greatly reduced workload as education and negation of people choosing good paying jobs frees up more people to join the workforce . Essentially reducing unemployment to 0 %. So in essence less stress , more people working more productively and working in what you are more interested in than what you have to to make ends meet . There would also be no incentive for me to provide for a family and set aside anything for children I would have , because my children would have no right to an inheritanceI ' m not certain but I believe that the abolition of inheritance would only pertain to private property not personal property . Personal property being items of sentimental value or objects for personal use toothbrush , books , beds , furniture etc rather than holiday homes , large sums of money from inheritance , stocks , company ownership etcAnd if I was someone looking to emigrate to a country , a country that fits the description that those points compose would literally be my last choice because everything would be taken from me on my arrival . If I already lived in this country , there would be greater incentive to leave than to stay . Emigrants not immigrants . Those who have left the country would have their property confiscated as they no longer reside in the community and thus no longer contribute while their assets are dead weight . Immigrants would be able to keep their stuff , they would want people to come . I do not see how a nation founded on these principles would be sustainable , there is no incentive to achieve or do anything beyond what is expected resulting in no innovation , and the incentive to leave the country for a place that doesn ' t do that stuff would be higher than the incentive edit or lack thereof to stayWell the USSR turned from an agrarian nation to the first space faring nation in less than 40 years under communism so saying innovation isn ' t possible isn ' t the case . In a socialist society the ability to contribute through innovation would be greatly enhanced because so much more collaboration is done with more people . Those who lack the capital necessary to invest in an idea could approach the community with a proposal and if the community believes it ' s worth investing in the infrastructure to develop this idea would be put forward . Whereas in a capitalist society the only good ideas able to be put forward are those of people in power or with adequate capital to invest in their idea .