It's hard to say if it never works if all you know is greed and incompetence

> Inevitably you end up with people who do the absolute bare minimum to qualify for "the communal take" and a small cadre of power players who carry many multiples of their weight. Eventually the strong players get sick of carrying, and the whole thing collapses.

What are you citing from? It seems like you're just describing our current model of society rather than the one you say you're criticizing