If you look closely, you'll see that at its core, this is just another Luddite argument. While it's true that a centrally planned economy may not ultimately ha

If you look closely, you'll see that at its core, this is just another Luddite argument. While it's true that a centrally planned economy may not ultimately have the same variety of goods, it's important to understand that a planned economy is not optimizing for that, and that parts of a regular economy (especially parts concerning national defense security and energy security) are already very highly planned) > It is a fool’s errand to try and plan an economy, and those who think they can, or believe they are currently doing so in any meaningful way, are mistaken. So were the people who thought cars couldn't be faster than horses or that computers couldn't beat humans at chess or generate deceptive but believable text output at a level of a 10-year old.