I'm running into problems in some of the right-wing groups I'm in just trying to find out exactly how communist each person is within the group. The problem is that right-wing people tend to outright reject communism at face-value but then right-wing people start advocating for resource redistribution policies that are simply "communist-light".
What is everyone's idea of some sort of "minimum" access to resources everyone should have?
If I owned all the resources in society. All the land. All the equipment. Everything. You would not be able to get any food without trespassing on my land which is a violation of my private property. If you followed private property laws then you would get 0 resources. I could pay you some of those resources in exchange for some sort of "labor". Perhaps, I find your daughter cute so I pay her resources in exchange for sex but perhaps I don't like you at all so I decide to pay you 0 resources. Without any resources, you will die. Is this right? Is it right that I can use the fact I own all the resources to "force" others into doing what I want them to do "labor, including prostitution" or that I can outright refuse to employ someone if I don't like them such that they would have 0 resources?
At a philosophical level, is the above "ok" to people? If it isn't okay to people, then what is the minimum situation any individual should be allowed in society? Does every person have a right to work? Does every person have a right to certain kinds of work (not prostitution but manual labor is fine for example)? Does every person have a right to a certain amount of resources given the work they do?
A lot of people don't want to tackle the above hypothetical because most people say the above hypothetical is unreasonable. But, is it? It's going to be coming up soon. ESG metrics, digital IDs, etc... If you don't do what you're told, you want have access to resources. Many on here believe this is wrong BUT who is telling you how you have to behave? The owners of capital. If all owners of resources got together and said they only will give jobs in exchange for resources to people who met certain characteristics, why is that something that isn't allowed? If you truly believe that people don't have a right to the resources other people own then why can't the owners of resources simply decline to give their resources to other people if they don't want to? Otherwise, what you're suggesting is that everyone should have a right to earn resources from those who have capital. If that's what you believe then what are the parameters of this guarantee on other people's resources? How communist are you?
I guess one way of describing what I'm asking is "what sort of things in life should every person be guaranteed"?
Guaranteed? None. You are guaranteed what you are willing to work and fight for.
Your hypothetical isn't unreasonable, it's broken. So I own everything? What stops me from being killed? Just myself? Or perhaps I let everyone be as long as I sit in a palace as a sex slug and be brought attractive girls to have my way with. I doubt I'd find that any way to live. I guess what I give a bunch of people some of my land to keep me from being murdered in my sleep? I don't see how I could ever retain ownership of the world as a mere human. The reality is I have no intents or desires to own the whole world anyway.
If I were to bring your hypothetical down to earth and at least limit it to a large country or something, I'd likely be a fairly benevolent dictator. I'm going to need construction skills, an army, farmers. If it's a large country I can't really overlook everything. Why would I not want to offer my people some sort of comfort? I'm more likely to get a good army or a good worker or whatever if they are well fed, housed, and content. I'd have little patience for the lazy and the criminal. There would be a high level of capital punishment and a low to none of imprisonment, albeit I'd do everything I can to ensure things like fair trials, because again I benefit positively from keeping the good people content and happy. Moral system would be all on me, I said I was a benevolent dictator after all. Want to be a weird sexuality pervert, ok that's fine I mentioned capital punishment, right? I want happy families and hard workers, not a land of useless sex degenerates. It's still my land and I make the rules.