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Re:Socialist Cyborgs by refurb on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:17AM (#28671697)
Let’s say with data central planning is more tractable. What is the benefit? To make more items people should want? I mean capitalism does a pretty good job making things people do want.

And capitalism is highly distributed decision making. As we all know, top down decision making pretty much sucks no matter how much information they might have.

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Re:Socialist Cyborgs by phreeza on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:51AM (#28672200)
> capitalism does a pretty good job making things people do want

This is a two-edged sword, because it also makes people want stuff that it can make.

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Re:Socialist Cyborgs by refurb on Monday September 27, 2021 @12:58PM (#28673186)
Have a good example? I mean, the demand for relatively vacuous consumer goods was pretty strong in communist countries as well.
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