Game is Kingdoms Reborn
Well the communism upside seems much, much stronger than the capitalist one here so from a game design perspective it makes sense for there to be a drawback. Also the capitalism bonus is literally "consoom product", this honestly doesn't seem so bad to me idk.
If it were realistic the communist downside would be that every other nation turns hostile to you and constantly tries to overthrow your government
Like the Gandhi hack in Civ, except its everyone else in the world trying to nuke you.
100% employment worker's state, where nobody wants to work anymore.
No you see people are more motivated when they are offered starvation wages to flip burgers for boat dealership owners that will call them racial slurs and try to get them fired if they don't lick their boots enthusiastically enough. It's called meritocracy sweatie.
Hmm wonder why you make money from luxury consumption :soviet-hmm:
It's weird that in the illustration, the communists appear to be plenty motivated and passionate compared to the capitalist.
I'm also confused as to how the government gets money from higher rates of luxury consumption. Historically speaking, the reverse has been true.
I don't think that's necessarily it. If the people have lost faith in the central organizer of their surplus product it can be very akin to being alienated from your work under capitalism. While whether or not the USSR (Big Other bless it's memory) produced commodities or not, an aspect of Estranged Labor was that "the object which labor produces – labor’s product – confronts it as something alien, as a power independent of the producer." If someone has no say over their production and feels it falls into a corrupted system full of graft and irrationality, some aspects of Capitalist alienation may arise.
Though like you say a campaign to reduce corruption at a massive scale to inspire faith in economic planners again would have been key
"Commie no poet" is one of the most obnoxious anti-communist canard out there. If you hear that coming out of people proclaiming to be communist then they absolutely are not communist.
The populace is already relatively content so MCU, bread and circuses are just nice to have rather than the only thing keeping anyone going
