• volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    It, unfortunately, is an efficient distribution of labor

    Uh… No. I feel like half the fucking western world works on finance, which is quite literally just maximizing the revalorization of capital for the few at the top. Besides, how can be the only system in history to have millions of people unemployed, be efficient at distributing labor?

    responsiveness of market prices is less inefficient than reciprocal economies or central planning

    This is empirically false. You can’t provide a scientific source for this because it’s wrong. Central planning is the most efficient tool, that’s why Amazon and Walmart (extremely centrally planned systems which have power to control their supply chains at will) systematically outcompete all other businesses. Amazon doesn’t outcompete other stores being “a competitive market of warehouses”, it’s a digitalised, centrally-planned behemoth that can so much as smell when a customer is going to conceive making a purchase, and generate all the immediate responses in the supply chain from manufacturing to distribution to optimise the whole thing.

    If you wanna talk about countries, please explain how the transition from planned economies to free markets plunged the entirety of Eastern Europe into a deep crisis that killed millions and ruined millions more of lives, to the point of many countries like Belarus, Russia or Ukraine not really having recovered from the impact in 30+ years. So much for the efficiency of capitalism, amirite? A centrally planned economy is what brought the USSR from being a poor, backwards-ass agrarian country in 1917, to defeating the Nazis and being the second power of the world by the 60s.

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      3 months ago

      Read some theory, buddy. Marx in particular. I know he’s probably a capitalist pig by your estimations, but it might do you some good.

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        Dude I’m a Marxist-Leninist. Saying that Amazon is a centrally planned behemoth of efficiency amounts to saying that the capitalist will sell us the very rope with which they’ll hang them, you’re misunderstanding my comments

        Also, where does Marx talk about the efficiency of markets and inefficiency of central planning???