there is always a myth that someone with absolute control of resources could more efficiently re-allocate those efforts. But first you have to obtain absolute

there is always a myth that someone with absolute control of resources could more efficiently re-allocate those efforts. But first you have to obtain absolute top down control in order to do so. Very similar to how command-and-control politics schemes could be in theory more efficient than messy democracies, but those messy democracies, while inefficient, produce variety that guard against the much larger errors of mis-allocation, ineptitude, or corruption. Also the person with the vision of absolute top down control typically selects their vision as the correct one. If only we implemented my vision, since it is the correct one. If we did what the OP suggests we'd be communicating with CORBA across the net, have artifacts such as "car" and "cdr" x10.