What pricing power? Under communism it was not about pricing at all - getting supply materials required hustling more than money. Buying things in bulk gave no

What pricing power? Under communism it was not about pricing at all - getting supply materials required hustling more than money. Buying things in bulk gave no discount at all - sometimes quite the opposite. As for individuals starting their own entrepreneurship - only in certain specific, government allowed situations. And even then it was frowned upon both by the government and by the society. Also, being entrepepreneur didn't make much sense anyway, because money didn't matter as much as talons for items. That's why used cars (not requiring talons) cost way more than new ones -- as in, the taxi corp could buy new cabs, drive them for a few years, and then sell with a profit. Worker-owned coops were nothing like what we know under capitalism. They were huge semi-governmental structures filled with bureaucracy.