I was told growing up that I won’t like socialism once I have to start paying taxes. I pay taxes, but would much rather pay way more taxes to have socialism. Including paying for social programs I wouldn’t use like welfare, free tuition etc.
Once I qualified for work pharmacare that was great! But I remember how much it sucked not having any health insurance. Yeah I bootstrapped it, but I’d hope we would grow up as a species and not have to have so much bootstrapping, since there are better ways at this point.
When i was a kid i’d always hear that communism was when: what everyone had was the same, and was nothing. I’d always been confused by this because it seemed to me like that would give people a common incentive.
To the naive question of cost, i have told people that i’d gladly give the government my entire paycheck if they genuinely took care of all of my needs. I’m not much of a consumer and i never have been, and i’d likely have a much higher quality of living if that were the case.
Fortunately if you look at the real world nothing like that is necessary, any sort of actual socialist economy takes care of its own needs practically automatically. But I’d still do it, if it worked like that.