The alternative doesn’t need to be central planning You could even make an argument that some of the current US problems are caused by central planning, for ex

The alternative doesn’t need to be central planning You could even make an argument that some of the current US problems are caused by central planning, for example in the form of tax code based incentives or major spending packages Another separate (but related in some ways) argument is that many companies and individuals can externalize their costs, and this distorts markets