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as technologists I think it's tempting for us to look at the idea of the economy, or at least like the idea of a planned economy, in terms of an optimization problem. Ordering the most "deserving" inputs and outputs, those that lead to some level of human flourishing, over whatever timescale and via whatever primary, secondary, tertiary effects etc and assigning resources to them in proportion to their importance - a…
I agree with you that this is not primarily a logistics but really a social problem. I think the section on the Soviet Union in the article addresses specifically that point. > The proponents of the economic calculation problem now tell us that the proof of the failure of socialism lies in the collapse of the USSR. However, what failed in the USSR was not the planned economy, but the lack of democracy. > The economy…
Re: The need for a socialist planned economy (2021)
#11That was tried as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_self-management