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Is there no personal property? Do workers now not control the fruits of their own labor?
Personal property and profit are not the same thing.
Inherently, no. But accumulation of personal property can be a result of profit; profit is simply the difference between expenses and revenue, whether expressed in monetary terms or in material goods.
So long as people are allowed to dispose of the fruits of their own labor as they desire, profit remains a possibility. Which means any society must either how to deal with profit, or how to stop people from disposing of the fruits of their labor as they desire.
Oh it will be totally better then. Corrupt assholes can cut out the dollar sign middle man and just offer exploitation opportunities in exchange for not dying of starvation or disease directly instead.
And who is going to protect the corrupt arseholes from us? At the moment it's the entire system we live under, that they control.
We cannot do any worse by destroying that system and directly fighting the corrupt arseholes.