I think "Anthem" would be more of an eye-opener for him/her.

Who is advocating for you making my choices, I am advocating the end of the system that rewards banksters to the detriment of the producers.

How much less would you have to work if you didn't work for $10 an hour while paying the plumber $50?
Wouldn't it be better if you worked and didn't pay the plumber anything else?

If someone is a dictator than they aren't practicing capitalism.
I missed that the first time,....if the boss isn't an ultimate dictator who is?
He dictates what you do, when you do it, and what you wear while doing it all under the penalty of starvation and homelessness.
Clearly your view of crapitalism is far too rosy.

Don't you see that one valuing humans on their market value dehumanizes us?
Yes, the bus boy has as much claim on the lear jet as anybody else.
Working entitles you to one share of the work.
However, what would a bus boy do with a lear jet sitting in a hanger and not getting used much?
Why wouldn't he just go to the airport and get on one when he needed to go somewhere?
Isn't having something and not using it wasting the time of the workers that created it?
Under my proposal doing so would be recognized as needless consumption.
Why have a car when you can call to get a ride?
Why store a boat for months when you can get one from the pool of boats when you need it?
I am suggesting a paradigm change and you are trying to force the viewpoint of the current system on it.

Absolutely not, anything that reduces the collective labor needed to feed, clothe, shelter, and pamper the human race is net positive.
Why do we have to have money?
The average worker doesn't give one whit if the accounting department takes a permanent vacation.
As long as the workers continue to supply the shelves we don't need anybody else.
Instead of submitting to a ruling class eating lavishly from our work, and not their own, we can throw of the monkey master and enjoy the gains in efficiency for ourselves.

Despite all the automation efficiency increases the average work week has not decreased since the anarchists forced the 8 hour day at the end of the 19th century.
Crapitalism and freedom are oxymorons.
Even chattel slaves of the antebellum were mostly allowed half of Saturday and all of Sunday to do as they pleased.
Just because all of the value they created accrued to the crapitalist rather than whatever percentage that prevails today only changes the slavery by degree and not in fact.
If only 60% of the value my labor creates goes to the master instead of 100% doesn't make any less a slave, just a better compensated one.
I have no choice but to submit to the exploitation of the masters, be they the banksters of my business, a boss of his own business that employs me, or a shareholder in a corporation, either I submit to their extortion or I live under a bridge.
Hardly a free choice.

Or we can dispense with the accounting system that creates this possibility and just order what we want from the net while working a productive job.
The worker doesn't care if the shareholders get their cut, as long as he puts goods on the shelves the shareholders can take a rocket to the moon and the shelves are still full.
Under my proposal he can have luxury goods for the asking.

I agree, somebody is going to have to work at the shoe factory if we want shoes.
The current number in use is 20,000 hours, but I don't have access to the data needed to be certain that that number creates enough goods to balance out a lifetime of consumption for sure.
Regardless it beats the 100,000+ hours required by crapitalism for a retirement to poverty.
Once those hours are met then you can weed your neighbors garden all you want, or you can continue your research into advanced physics, whatever floats your boat.

Right, but in the paradigm shift I propose we work because we love working, and not because we have to do it to eat.

If you had something that needed fixing you would take it to the local guy fixing things.
No need to barter, everything is free for the asking.
Once consumption is viewed in the context of the amount of work involved recycling takes on a whole new perspective.
Do you want to consume a new car, or is a working old one just as good to get you from here to there?
Do you want to be on the hook for all the hours in producing a car or would you rather just check one out from the motor pool when you need one?

What I propose is a paradigm shift and requires a new perspective, the old one doesn't suffice.

Ok, then I can come to your house for supper and a bed?

Oh, you are going to force me to join the market if I want a bed and supper.

Crapitalism is founded on force, if everything was free for the asking nobody would pay the shareholders anything, but they will work because they want the goods that the division of labor provides.

You obviously believe that the world and society owes you the means of life just because you exist.

You obviously didn't read the proposal.
And yes, the society owes me more than a boot on my face for eternity.

The proposal is that the workers continue to work but instead of rewarding the banksters and shareholders they just order what they want from the net.
We have to have workers, we don't have to have dollars.

You were born into this world with a brain. I might suggest that you start using it.
Sweet jesus,.....
I used my brain to devise a system that doesn't hinge on slavery to continue.
Currently we live on the backs of Chinese slaves, but that is coming to an end.
At one time we used our own poor, but now the poor of the third world have to suffice because our own slaves wanted too much in rent.
'We used to own our slaves, now we just rent them.' Edward R Murrow

Oops I forgot that you don't own a plow and since you don't want to work for money you don't have anything to use to get someone else's or get someone else to build you one and if you did you can't get someone to deliver the metal for it or to smelt and cast the metal or to find and dig the ore out of the ground or to build or design the machinery needed to do all of that.
What part of 'continue to work' did you miss?
We don't have to have dollars, we do have to have workers.
It is your ignorance of what you have read that is showing.
Not once have I asked something for nothing and continuously have said that we have to have workers.

the land you think you ought to be able to plow and plant belongs to someone else
By that you mean that you will kill me to keep me off the land?
Your system lives on it's thugs' ability to keep the slaves in line, perhaps you should reevaluate your position.

I am neither young nor a fool, I have just looked outside my slave mentality to see that there is a world outside what the masters have determined.
Haven't you read Anthem?
Or do you just ignore that so you can feel powerful in denigrating your intellectual superiors?

Look outside the matrix created for you by those that would keep you on the farm.

'Energy, human time, land, and other means of production clearly are not limitless.'
Land is not limitless, I agree.
Energy is free for the taking, ask Tesla.
Absent the crapialists' need for greed we would have all the energy we need for free.
People are not in short supply.
Means of production are only limited by the number of workers to work them.

'"There are plenty of resources to provide food, clothing, and shelter to every human being and domesticated animal on the planet."
I agree.'
Wonderful, at least we don't have to debate this one.

'Does "working for a share of the work" mean you're only working for the cause of providing for the community, but not for providing for yourself?'
If we want consumer goods we have to create them. The division of labor is the most efficient means to that end.
Therefore, the farmer farms, the trucker trucks, the miner mines, the refiner refines, the driller drills and the bus boy busses, all on faith that everybody else is contributing a like amount and in return we order what we want from the net for delivery to our door.
What we create goes to the common pool and we draw from that pool what we need to continue producing.

'I agree with this except I don't call people keeping the stuff they make a system.'
You can call it what you want, but the reality is that the crapitalist system is what is enslaving you.
You will work to enrich wall street banksters or you can starve under bridge, slave.

'But I'm loath to steal.'
Expropriation of personal wealth is not required, we will expropriate any means of production that the 'owners' leave fallow, ie, the waltons will not be driving many of the trucks that currently bring goods to the shelves, leaving those trucks not actually driven by their 'owners' would be silly so we will put them to good use.
We will not exclude the current owners from our scheme, they can order stuff from the net, too.

'If so do we simply take wealth from the rich to even things out?'
We won't have to.
Can the factory 'owner' work the factory by himself?
Then the workers will work the factory and just stop taking orders from the boss.
He can still sit in the office and answer the phone, take orders, and whatever else makes him feel useful, he only loses his life and death hold over the workers.
Not to say that supervision will cease, just management's ability to starve the worker into submission.

'And once that money is in gov't coffers,'
Gov't as you know it will cease, no longer will them most willing to use violence drag us by our hair.
Rule by force will end.

'What if people don't do what you consider their civic duty, i.e. work.'
Rousseau's invisible hand will see to that.
People will work because it is the right thing to do, those that don't work will take the place in society currently held by those people with signs at the intersections.

'Suppose middle class people decide to spend more precious time with their families'
I hope that they do. Crunch the numbers, my proposal leaves far more time for leisure than crapitalism.

'An engineer decides to tinker with ham radio circuits for fun instead of working on a project to make the first smartphones.'
Here is the invisible hand again, if nobody steps up to invent the next personal computer then there won't be one, but I doubt this as a likely outcome.
Imagine r and d limited only by the intelligence of the researcher and not the economics of crapitalism.

Does the gov't go to those people and threaten them with some penalties for not working?
NO. Rule by force ends.
NOBODY will be forced to do anything, though their neighbors may not wish to associate with them.

of my kid needing surgery, but there's a shortage
Do you want a surgeon motivated by greed or a surgeon motivated by an irresistible urge to help?
Which one do you get under crapitalism?
Healthcare will be performed only by those willing to do it and by none of them that only want the easy work for high pay.

A customer asking me to stay late to get a circuit working before a trade show is rude and imposing if all I'm just working for my share of work.
There won't be any trade shows, and the attitude will change from hurry hurry, to manana.
This was one of the things I learned in mexico, why kill ourselves to make the jefe rich when we can just do it tomorrow?

you have to give them something.
I am giving them access to luxury, something crapitalism must deny them.

but money is easier b/c you don't have to have on hand exactly what the party happens to want at that moment.
Whatever you want can be ordered from the net, perhaps you have to wait on delivery, but what's your hurry?

I propose a paradigm shift, take the time to imagine a world not limited to the crumbs that drop from the shareholder's table but a world where you can have whatever you want for the asking.