That's for some reason a thing for a lot of Americans. For them there is no distinction between Social Democracy (As in Europe today) Socialism (As in Eastern Block 1945~1989) and Communism (Target which Socialist governments in Eastern Europe were aiming for)
It is actually a paradox that communism or in modern words post scarcity society has high probability of being built through AGI, because when you drop 90%+ population out of possibility to be employed due to intelligence lower than chip running AGI, then you either need to give them money as UBI or make basic services free as was main aim of communism.
It is actually a paradox that communism or in modern words post scarcity society has high probability of being built through AGI, because when you drop 90%+ population out of possibility to be employed due to intelligence lower than chip running AGI, then you either need to give them money as UBI or make basic services free as was main aim of communism.