> with modern computing it seems like it might be more efficient to solve by one party with great resources, rather than by many parties with more primitive pre

> with modern computing it seems like it might be more efficient to solve by one party with great resources, rather than by many parties with more primitive predictive tools I'm not sure what technology we have now that the Soviets didn't have that would allow for successful central planning of agriculture. Local boots-on-the-ground conditions vary so much, even from one end of the field to another. That aside, even if we had technology sufficiently advanced so as to be indistinguishable from magic, there's the other great problem that central planning couldn't overcome, which is the problem of human nature and incentives. Many parties with primitive tools who have a direct incentive that their crop is bountiful will beat out the one central party with great resources that nevertheless lacks skin in the game.