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>The system operated in ignorance of what food banks needed. Clearly the root of the problem. Straw Manning "central planning" is a perverted way to characteri
by btreecat 10mo ago
>The system operated in ignorance of what food banks needed.
Clearly the root of the problem. Straw Manning "central planning" is a perverted way to characterize the failure.
- sparselogic 10mo agoStraw manning? One of the earliest critiques of central planning was its inability to learn and respond to unforeseen complexity in the real world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
- btreecat 10mo agoThe solution proposed was to adopt a plan from some other centralized committee. The committee being common to both solutions likely wasn't the problem given the increased success of the second solution. It was the ability to take into account the difference in resource need and utility. That could have been done by the first group, and would have likely produced a better result. Central planning doesn't require you to ignore the needs of the people you're planning for.