cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/33936586
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2025
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Central planners in the Soviet Union didn't even have computers and they lacked the level of scientific understanding we have today of the environment, of our resources, and of the limits to growth. We've all heard about Mao killing the sparrows in China.
This isn't a reason to never try central planning again.
They had computers towards the end, of course, but they were extremely primitive. The kinds of disaster predictions you can do on a machine built to run Tetris are nothing compared to what can be done with today's technology.
Also, it's not like markets can actually deal with disasters. Without at least some central planning disaster response and relief is impossible.
No, we still have market based economies because they make a few people very very rich.
We needed markets before computers and instant mass communication. Things are different now
What about the fact that market-based responses to COVID were universally worse than centrally planned responses?
You called me poorly educated. Was I supposed to be nice after that?
Whatever you say Dunning-Kruger
Eat my shorts.
How old are you? Did you go through COVID? Capitalism doesn't do disasters well at all. Every cost is minimized. So emergency supplies go unmaintained. If it doesn't help the stock price annually it doesn't get done.
American healthcare is capitalist. It's insurance companies and for profit hospitals. That's why it's bad. Healthcare is an inelastic demand.
China isn't a Democratic State. I'm not arguing that just having one guy handling all the economic planning is a good idea.
I don't disagree with that. Why leave that to the market which doesn't optimize for anything other than more money and whos actions are opaque? Happy, healthy, and productive societies cost money, money that can be spent elsewhere. Slavery is efficient and profitable.
If some organization is going to have the power to make or break me, I want them to be transparent and democratic. Not a rich person who has never worked in their life trying to make more money using whatever means they can get away with.
Non market economies are never going to work, because you'll be essentially creating one giant monopoly and leaving people without the possibility of doing things differently
What happens when you don't like the product the state offers?
What if you discover a way of doing things more efficiently?
What about independent artists and creators?
And that's not getting into how unpredictable people are, products that have been predicted to fail end up becoming very successful, and the opposite also happens