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"They seemingly can't run stuff like medicine manufacturing, heavy machinery engineering etc. " Well, I now have a image of soviet russias state factories spit

"They seemingly can't run stuff like medicine manufacturing, heavy machinery engineering etc. " Well, I now have a image of soviet russias state factories spitting out tank after tank ... Governments can handle this. Also "government" can mean very different things, but I agree that on a general base, they are not able to handle a complex chain of supply. Or at least not as good as a distributed market of private entities.

Jensson 5y ago
Yeah, I should have added "efficiently" in there. And manufacturing has gotten a lot more complex since back then, not sure they could properly manage a modern supply chain with related electronics etc, without relying on the private sector to provide things. But we know both China and Soviet gave up trying to accomplish things without the private sector, so I'd assume they couldn't.