Even common ownership itself is only a means (however necessary) to an end. The end is a society where "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all"

In class society we're all cramped & twisted out of shape, we're all scared, angry, frustrated—even the capitalists are, although it's not easy for them to recognize it & we cannot expect any great number of them to do so

(Is the famous, rich, powerful Mr Trump a shining example of a free human being?)

Capitalism is a massive waste of human potential. Not only are people chivvied into taking any job that's going, rather than something they have an aptitude for; not only are they then exploited; but they can't even do the job _well_, bc it would take longer or cost more

People are very different; they like doing very different things. There's not much that's in any way worth doing that _somebody_ wouldn't enjoy & take pride in, if it were socially respected & they weren't defined by it & they didn't have to do it all day every day

Dentistry. My god. Wild horses could not drag me to do an hour of dentistry. Or surgery. Christ. "Who would do the dirty jobs under socialism?" — Same as capitalism: people who found them interesting & rewarding & were respected for doing them & not thought to be dirty _people_

We don't have to live like this. We don't need to let ourselves be coerced into producing substandard goods & services, & consuming substandard goods & services that our fellow workers have also been coerced into producing

I get annoyed being rung up incessantly by cold calling firms asking about an accident that was not my fault. (Haven't been in one; it probably would have been.) But imagine what it's like _working_ for one of those firms

Prob very long hours, bad conditions, low wages, ill-tempered people on the line (I try not to be), & _knowing_ you're not doing any conceivable good for anybody on earth except some capitalist

Capitalism fills the supermarkets with low-quality, unhealthy, adulterated food for badly paid workers to eat in a hurry. And liberalism thinks the whole problem a _consumer_ issue. No. Free workers who were proud of what they were doing just wouldn't make stuff like that

Nobody would write clickbait trash if they weren't being paid per click to draw eyeballs to adverts. Nobody would make apps with half the features disabled & ads all over everywhere so you had to pay for an in-app purchase, if they had a choice about it

Enormously dispiriting to be compelled to do something worse than you're capable of doing it, worse than you'd like to do it—& under capitalism that's universal

So let's just get rid of it. Let's not have capitalists & profit & rent & homelessness & unemployment & the fear of those things & everything else that stops us being free & stops us realizing more than a fraction of our potential, individually & together