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Central planning, in this context, is not the same as political philosophy. So be careful not to conflate the two. Central planning does happen in free-market
by bruce511 3y ago
Central planning, in this context, is not the same as political philosophy. So be careful not to conflate the two.
Central planning does happen in free-market economies all the time, at various levels. An HOA for example is a hyper-local example of central planning. The larger the scale the stronger the lever, and hence the more variable the result.
The "free market" brings all kinds of its own oroblems of course - I'm not arguing for the elimination of planning - but long-range planning at national scales, is hard.
- NemoNobody 3y agoHaha, I love "Central Planning" is viewed as a bad thing by most normal Americans - like the commies are the only ones doing it. It takes a huge amount of "Central Planning" for our economy to function - as its fundamentally based on the concept of delayed gratification. Those concepts are very very similar. Any American that has worked and budgeted towards any financial goal should be able to see that for what it is... essentially the same thing.
- cscurmudgeon 3y agoPlanning isn't the problem, planning to the point of forcing others is the problem. USSR stooped so low as to plan vacations of its workers: where they could go and with whom they could go. https://daily.jstor.org/workers-of-the-world-take-pto/ https://daily.jstor.org/workers-of-the-world-take-pto/ Not all central planning is the same. An American budgeting their finances is not the same as USSR deciding what the entire country should do during their vacations.
- NemoNobody 3y agoIt's the same here - we just have more options and corporations tell us where to go and what to wear, watch and do. The corporate world is much more efficient tho