Linear programming was hoped to have been a strong enough framework to replace the market-based resource allocation system. Unfortunately, no single centrally m

Linear programming was hoped to have been a strong enough framework to replace the market-based resource allocation system. Unfortunately, no single centrally managed computer could outperform a network of autonomous free participants. Modern government is the realization that there can be no prosperity without free agents, and that propaganda can persuade these free agents to acquiesce to being governed.