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A comment on Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan. Parent comment

Re:Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan by bwestergard on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:16AM (#21311349)
This argument - that Amazon prefigures a new Soviet-style planning - has been made sincerely. I’ve written a critique here: http://machineryquestion.com/notes/peoples-republic
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Re:Jeff Bezos’s Master Plan by morningseagulls on Monday October 21, 2019 @10:22AM (#21312570)
>This argument - that Amazon prefigures a new Soviet-style planning - has been made sincerely.

Because there is evidence that Marxists had tried, and failed, to do what Amazon has now succeeded. Project Cybersyn comes to mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2018/08/project-cybersyn-...

However, what Amazon has done is just characteristic of "organized industries", which Hayek conceded in his essay, The Use of Knowledge in Society, as being a "halfway house" between Soviet-style planning and free markets.

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