3 ms·
> Whenever people describe WalMart or Amazon as centrally planned economies It's a lucky thing that nobody said that then, or that straw man wouldn't have anyt
by drewcoo 5y ago
> Whenever people describe WalMart or Amazon as centrally planned economies
It's a lucky thing that nobody said that then, or that straw man wouldn't have anything to do. Full work for all straw men!
- creddit 5y agoThe author of the comment didn’t quibble about this in their reply nor is my characterization an inordinate one. The author is making a clear comparison between the “central planning” of mega-scale retailers and Gosplan. It’s implied that the comparison is reasonable in that Amazon and WalMart are somehow equivalent to or close to the economy of the USSR or else the comparison itself was self-defeating and therefore wouldn’t have been made. It’s not a straw man at all.