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It comes from a consensus of people who are skeptical of central planning, which spans more than a single "specific ideological bent" and should be the starting
by thehardsphere 9y ago
It comes from a consensus of people who are skeptical of central planning, which spans more than a single "specific ideological bent" and should be the starting point in any given discussion of the topic since over the decades the planners have produced nothing but failure.
Frankly, the burden of proof ought to be on you to show that it's going to work now just because we have shiny new computers that they didn't have between 1922 to 1991. Which is actually very thoughtfully discussed in the article.
- llukas 9y agoDecades of market failures (and economists claiming that this time they got it right) should also be taken into account.
- thehardsphere 9y agoWhen you can point out a "market failure" that resulted in famines that killed millions of people, maybe we'll have something on the same scale to account for.