in my understanding, relying on wiki for definitions:
communism is stateless moneyless propertyless religionless classless society where there is the common ownership or non-ownership of the means of production
socialism in theory wants to prioritize the value of labor and seeks to have the common social democratic ownership of the means of production
what’s the boost button
pessimistic take: still underpaid
optimistic take: wealthy understand this and are willing to pay a little more to cover worker costs to keep the machine running so raises will come
in that there are hierarchical meritocratic levels of achievement?
or that there are extractive processes which benefit the top at the expense of those lower?
perhaps the people who say “no one owes you anything” are in error
interesting rollercoaster of a story, thanks for sharing