When we think about what society should look like, we should begin from the now, by understanding how present society works. Marx calls this scientific socialism. Utopian socialism is when we make up imaginary worlds in our mind about what society should be like and try to implement that imaginary world in reality.
So questions like these are not really useful, because the answers are contingent on so many unknown, untested factors. We can speculate some systems, but we have no idea how that system would actually work, meaning we cannot work towards that system because we don't know its actual performance.
A more useful question would be, how would we change how wages presently work to make it fairer. FWIW, Marx answered this as "to each according to their work", not "to each according to their need" which is something to implement in communism(but not socialism).
When we think about what society should look like, we should begin from the now, by understanding how present society works. Marx calls this scientific socialism. Utopian socialism is when we make up imaginary worlds in our mind about what society should be like and try to implement that imaginary world in reality.
So questions like these are not really useful, because the answers are contingent on so many unknown, untested factors. We can speculate some systems, but we have no idea how that system would actually work, meaning we cannot work towards that system because we don't know its actual performance.
A more useful question would be, how would we change how wages presently work to make it fairer. FWIW, Marx answered this as "to each according to their work", not "to each according to their need" which is something to implement in communism(but not socialism).