> By using these cliched examples, we're intimating that our society is somehow different. It is, the price system is fundamentally different. Even if those or

> By using these cliched examples, we're intimating that our society is somehow different. It is, the price system is fundamentally different. Even if those or similar processes take place within certain organizations (like large corporations or universities), most absurdities are largely confined to those organizations. And the examples from communist countries are great because they show where bureaucratically controlled economy leads, which is sometimes difficult to notice in systems where government's influence is more or less diluted.