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Who defines more productive business? Maybe car wash is a good business for people to work for in some period of live. USSR tries to optimize business from top
by para_parolu 3y ago
Who defines more productive business? Maybe car wash is a good business for people to work for in some period of live.
USSR tries to optimize business from top but selecting what would be produced and how much. Didn’t work well for community or customers.
- pixl97 3y agoAnd late stage capitalism with boom/bust cycles is good for the community and customers too? At least for the 1% it's doing great. The point is that a "Local" government deciding on how many of one kind of business shows up in one spot isn't optimizing from the top (you could consider that the state or federal government). Instead you could consider it optimizing it from the middle. The local people are electing officials and having them implement their will. Trying to call that communism would be... odd.
- I-M-S 3y agoThe way most municipal councillors in English-speaking countries optimize everything to retain homeowner's real estate value while keeping property taxes low doesn't exactly imbue confidence.
- gameman144 3y agoAre boom/bust cycles unique to capitalism? China is going through a pretty big bust and is hardly a capitalist role model.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIs China not a capitalist country? It does not appear to be a heavily planned economy, at least not in the past few decades.
- oreally 3y agoYes it is ever since it opened up, granting some exceptions to inwardness, recent bits of geopolitics and socialist moves.
- int_19h 3y agoHaving lived in the USSR, I certainly prefer late stage capitalism.