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Re:Unsolved problems in economics by Enginerrrd on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:15PM (#31413682)
Because markets are actually making a LOT of different decisions with incredible granularity and specificity across time and many other metrics. This is essentially computationally infeasible to do in a centralized way even if you make many simplifying assumptions.

It can go wrong of course! But there essentially is no alternative that is even close to working.

Re:Unsolved problems in economics by brodouevencode on Friday May 20, 2022 @08:39AM (#31446569)
But those decisions are done in a fairly isolated fashion, i.e. you don't know what your neighbor is doing.