Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon

Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by ethbr0 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:22PM (#25816323)

The outskirts of Beijing were still pretty grim, by US standards.

The issue with command economies has always been the producers have no incentive to succeed, hence productivity is atrocious.

But has anyone ever tried something like a fixed-price contract for standardized essentials, on a national scale?

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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by pram on Sunday January 17, 2021 @08:29PM (#25817213)

Those types of schemes were very common in the post-war period. The UK government used to directly design and sell "utility furniture" for example

Also plenty of monopolies do exactly that at enormous scales, Bell System/Western Electric is a good example.

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