"The dream of central economic planning died with the USSR. Thirty years later, technologies for matching supply and demand are a reality in America — as is the potential for surveillance Lenin and Stalin could only have dreamed of." that's a huge fucking load of projection if I've ever heard of it.
People's Republic of Walmart is a great and short read about how modern business planning and logistics already surpass the USSR
To circumvent this problem, they turned to scientific planning to replace the market with algorithms.
They used coding and algortihms so the markets wouldn't crash into each other! :bit-yay: :bit-yay:
I was once in a a university lecture on controlling 101 (don't ask) where a very much leftist friend of mine pointed out that everything we're learning here is just a 5 year plan except shrouded in buzzwords, ceterus paribus and incorrect math.
a university lecture on controlling 101 (don’t ask)
Kinda want to ask, though.
Well fuck okay, it was a required course as part of a bachelors degree designed exclusively about working in the public sector in commie europe which makes the whole thing even dumber since even all the gigachuds in that program were like "why do we need this the public sector doesn't adhere to market rules and has a monopoly".
In greater context, the inclusion of that course was part of the everlasting bullshit to make government run more like a business despite that making no fucking sense, so you know, an entire Semester of sitting through PURE IDEOLOGY :zizek: based on decisions made by PURE IDEOLOGY :zizek:
Thanks ! also, that's disappointing; "Controlling 101" seemed like a course on some magical power to control demons or something, like "Invoking 101".
Coming from the country with the National Security Agency and the Five Eyes program too
