Dunatis Posted:

Not everyone can have everything so scarcity of non-essentials is a fact

Scarcity period is a fact. And there are no needs; there are only higher- and lower-order wants/desires. Value is subjective, not objective.

Dunatis Posted:

Capitalism is not the closest thing to a perfect communist state

Perfection is a Platonic anti-concept, and communism is inherently unworkable for a “society”.

Dunatis Posted:

(which I agree is not likely to ever happen in any reasonable timeframe) it is the complete opposite. Socialism is the closest thing we have so far since Communism runs off of a desire for the wellbeing of the State

How disgusting of it! The state is a coercive expropriating territorial monopoly, and to care for the well-being of that is to care for theft and all sorts of other rights-violations. No thanks.

Dunatis Posted:

which of course includes all of its inhabitants, while Capitalism cares only for the wellbeing of the individual

By that I gather you mean individual atomism, which is a strawman. Further, the industrial revolution which you disdain was part of what brought a mbumive increase in the standard of living for people. The introduction of communism has always regressed the standard of living.

Dunatis Posted:

And as for money being a standardized replacement of the barter system. Of course it is, but the barter system itself relied on that motivation to work

No, it relies on the fact that humans have desires and seek to sate those desires in various ways, one of which is trade.

Econ: learn it.