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Kropotkin also goes into this, the idea is that once we re organize labor and get rid of all the middlemen, rent seekers, dead weight etc. We'll only have to work ~4 hours a day for necessities. That leaves an additional 4 hours of leisure time. You can use that new leisure time to work on art, music etc. especially the background labor that people often ignore. You want a canvas to paint on? Go to the art workshop and help them out for a day and they'll give you a canvas. Want tickets to the opera? Go work on setting up the stage, lights etc. and they'll give you a ticket. Want a toy, go put in some hours with santas elves and help to make some toys and you'll get one in return.

How feasible is this? Probably not as much any more. Kropotkin doesn't value specialization very highly, which makes sense as he was writing about Russia in the 1800s where most work was unskilled brute force labor like farming and working in a factory. Back then it was maybe possible for you to show up to the piano workshop and they could give you some menial job that would help them out. Now all the menial work is done by robots and machines and you need a decent amount of technical knowledge to be able to help out at the piano factory.

Anarchism has trouble dealing with specialization. While it increases efficiency, now more than ever, it also inevitably leads to classes and eventually a hierarchy of labor. Before they thought maybe mass education would fix this, as everyone would know a bit of everything and could help everywhere, but as education has expanded so has the complexity of the system, and the knowledge needed to be a functional part of that system.

Ideally, you wouldn't need to buy, if they don't need to make money to survive. They would provide entertainment options to the public just as farmers provide their produce and electricians provide their services.

Across societies, that's where it gets more difficult, particularly if the others don't have that same system. The other comment already suggested a communal pool of money used to trade with other communes, which makes sense. A given commune probably can't produce all it needs or wants locally, and money in some form is a valuable "lubricant" for trade where payment in kind (goods and services) or promises is impractical (because you might not have goods or services they need or might not be able to fulfill your promise).

So if buying a game made somewhere else and you can't come to some other agreement (like helping the developers fix their plumbing in exchange for a copy), I suppose there would have to be a mechanism to order a copy through that communal pool. The game should probably also become communal property if your own livelihood is supplied by the community. If it doesn't allow multiple people to play with the same copy at once, purchasing more copies may be necessary, but maybe you can also arrange a way to take turns.

Kropotkin says that you should use your labor to help out the video game co-op and then they'll give you the game. If we organize labor better we'd only have to work 4 hours a day for necessities, so the other 4 hours can be used to work on other projects and in return you'll get the products of that labor.

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step 1: overthrow capitalism

step 2: get sanctioned and assasinated by cia

step 3: back to capitalism or die

Really shows how much capitalism is the problem holding us back.

People ruin everything.