This was a question or rather a series of questions I heard over the weekend as I was discussing Marxism, class, labour etc. with a friend and I frankly couldn’t really answer their questions. So here I am again asking it because this community provides incredible answers <3
The discussion was about work and their question was: “If class is abolished in communism and the people are taken care of, why would anyone work at all? Who is going to work in coffee shops, pick up trash, work in stores etc.? What would be the incentive for people to do anything productive?” I did my best saying that those jobs would still exist, but I kind of fumbled the argument.
True, I was tempted to give my thoughts on exactly how communist society would work (per-berry payment is funny), but it is very far into the future and I do not know much about what little we can assume anyways. What you say about work and humans is also correct, because people are not money-driven machines without any desire to help one another (people that support capitalism tend to deny reality in blatant ways such as this).