<human>: Has anyone ever thought about a communist system that actually works?

I understand the premise of communism vs capitalism and I think that while both systems have benefits and pitfalls, an 'ideal' form of communism would actually work better than our current 'capitalist' system.

The problem with traditional communism is the lack of incentives for more work vs less work. A farmer who makes more than he needs to gains no benefit vs a farmer who makes just enough to fill his quota. The farmer who made extra would feel cheated, and rightly so.

Without benchmarks or quotas for productivity the average worker produces just enough, or a little bit less than they are required to produce. The result is a system that doesn't expect, nor even suggests, the notion of a surplus.

Ideally the improved yields from one farmer would ripple out towards the entire community and provide greater services (in this case, lets say wheat) for everyone. So if both the farmers from the original situation made just enough to fill their quotas, then their community would get the alloted 'credits' or what have you with reference to this. 

However, if one farmer produced more than he was required to, this change would be documented and the surplus would be applied evenly across the community. 

This doesn't change the mindset to produce more for the sake of profit, but rather quality of life. If the farmers make more wheat then everyone in the town gets more wheat. This could even be magnified through the entire country, but if it was done in this way then nobody would truly notice the change, and then the original problem comes up again.

The ideal solution would be to create a form of friendly competition between communities. Communities would be rated based on their production and would recieve incentives based on their productivity. Not reaching quotas would be frowned upon, but wouldn't result in people starving. In fact, the large scale community would become more inclined to provide incentives to offset losses from weaker communities.

Could you distill the essence of the text into 1-3 sentences?
<bot>: I'm not a social scientist, but I think communism has some strengths that could, if applied correctly, work in tandem with traditional capitalism.