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Re:The End of the Beginning (2020) by andrewjl on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:17AM (#35092638)
> It would have been much more efficient if the government had designated a single workstation vendor from the beginning, and denied CPU purchasing licenses to anyone who wanted to compete with them.

How would it be more efficient without a way to know if the end result is any good?

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Re:The End of the Beginning (2020) by sbierwagen on Saturday March 11, 2023 @08:55PM (#35115504)
You have hit on one of the core problems of a Marxist-Leninist command economy.
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Re:The End of the Beginning (2020) by andrewjl on Sunday March 12, 2023 @08:00PM (#35128496)
As well as of an oligopoly-dominated economy.
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