In the past, the systems that thought they knew top down what is "valuable" and what isn't in the economy and society in a more granular level didn't work out s

In the past, the systems that thought they knew top down what is "valuable" and what isn't in the economy and society in a more granular level didn't work out so well. Maybe the only reason we are spared extermination by some alien enemy is because our videos are so great (I think there is a short story from Philip K. Dick simikar to that).