These are people who known the current situation is broken in some way, have a possible idea of what the solution might be, but just lack the consciousness to fully think through how it's supposed to work. A lot of people recognise that the current market economy is broken, and is very deliberately being stacked against them. Capitalism works when everyone at least has the illusion of a fair chance of success, but now they find it harder and harder to build a foundation on which to even start from.
The Soviet Union was an interesting experiment that maybe happened a little bit too early to really work - a lot of the big-data technology a central planned system would need didn't really come about until the 80's or 90's. Never mind the fact that the Soviet Union was hobbled at the start by having to rebuild WW2 while America for all intents an purposes skated through with the majority of its natural infrastructure intact, most of its industry unbombed and most of its vital demographics intact.
It had some interesting ideas - a soviet citizen had the right to a job, for example. If you want to contribute - there's a job you can do right there that'll feed your family. Build that canal.
It'd be interesting to see how a centrally planned economy would work, with the access to the levels of data Facebook and the like can provide. Target are already capable of decting pregnancies before the mother can.... (The Chilean Cybersyn from the 70's was an interesting idea in this regard).
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The Soviet Union was an interesting experiment that maybe happened a little bit too early to really work - a lot of the big-data technology a central planned system would need didn't really come about until the 80's or 90's. Never mind the fact that the Soviet Union was hobbled at the start by having to rebuild WW2 while America for all intents an purposes skated through with the majority of its natural infrastructure intact, most of its industry unbombed and most of its vital demographics intact.
It had some interesting ideas - a soviet citizen had the right to a job, for example. If you want to contribute - there's a job you can do right there that'll feed your family. Build that canal.
It'd be interesting to see how a centrally planned economy would work, with the access to the levels of data Facebook and the like can provide. Target are already capable of decting pregnancies before the mother can.... (The Chilean Cybersyn from the 70's was an interesting idea in this regard).
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?