• RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Planning for relief disaster and a planned economy are incredibly different things. Planned economies do not handle disasters well at all as they didn’t prepare for that disaster in advance (typically because how can you plan for the one in a hundred million chance that x would happen).

    We largely have stuck with market based economies because they currently are much more responsive to changes.

    While computers have gotten more powerful there is zero evidence to support that we have gotten to the point where they could run a planned economy in any fashion.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      We largely have stuck with market based economies because they currently are much more responsive to changes.

      No, we still have market based economies because they make a few people very very rich.

      We needed markets before computers and instant mass communication. Things are different now

      While computers have gotten more powerful there is zero evidence to support that we have gotten to the point where they could run a planned economy in any fashion.

      What about the fact that market-based responses to COVID were universally worse than centrally planned responses?