people can't grasp the concept of scale.

while communism might seem like a good idea, it can only work in a bounded context — family / small community.

you can't scale a family.

please, for the love of anything that is dear to you, stop people from pushing communism on a large scale. it just doesn't work. we got rid of it 30 years ago and the bad smell still lingers.

That's exactly it. Teenagers support something romantic that they see in movies or that an adult has convinced them of. There's no way to take seriously someone who has never lived that reality and doesn't understand economics