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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by lambdaone on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:26AM (#50391024)
You are attacking a straw man here. No-one here is advocating the total central planning of everything, that's been tried in Soviet-style communism and shown to be disastrous.

But some degree of central planning for at least some of society's operations has always been essential to make a civilized society work. Laws, regulations, taxes and subsidies, and natural monopolies such as armed forces, police forces, fire services and wide area road networks, are all centrally planned in modern societies.

Just as communist-style regulation of everything has always failed, total deregulation has also been shown to fail everywhere it has been tried, as someone will always step into the resulting power vacuum and take control.

The only question is where you put the boundaries.

For example: we prevent companies from producing bread with arsenic in it, even if producing it would be more economically efficient for that company. Is this something you would advocate?

Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by Woodi on Friday November 06, 2026 @10:11AM (#50393288)
Excuse me but did you read to what I was answering ?

Dude straight said, citing from memory: So ? Nothing wrong with it.

And I asked about his definition of central planing.

And I then described central planing from East block - Soviet and rest of occupied countries.

So if someone not see badness in what is most known failure of central planing then this is quite wtf.

And what is your definition of central planning because looks like you do not see difference between "law and regulations" and central planning that already happened on Earth.

But if someone makes boundaries foggy or meaningless then there is lack of sense in discussion.

But actually you must be trolling - how on the Earth universal restrictions in poisoning land in discussion about central planned economy ??