Comment by jongjong

Yes it's some weird faux-communism with all of the problems of communism and none of its benefits.

At least communism must pretend to serve the common man.

There's a point where I'd rather live in a system which at least pretends to serve people... Then at least we'd get some half-assed semblance of fairness and the discrepancies would be a subject of conversation...

When you live in a system and adhere to its rules, it's nice to be getting something of approximately equal value in return.