Appropriate distribution data and infrastructure from Amazon, Walmart, etc, then centerly plan distribution based on need. Might need something else for particularly scarce goods.
Amazon and Walmart are common fun examples because supply warehouses and national supply chains are easy ways for people to understand what a planned economy might look like, but there are a ton of logistics companies whose data and infrastructure would be more useful, particularly ones who own large amounts of shipping containers or cargo planes.
Planned economies would be much more viable and robust nowadays. The internet and big data have been such game changers in that area that even decentralized planned economies are potentially viable (these would amount to something similar to markets, but optimized for something other than infinite growth of increasingly untethered numbers)
I said this in another comment, but The People's Republic of Walmart is an excellent book that covers this exact topic. Paul Cockshott also covers this in depth, but I haven't yet read any of his books on the topic.
This isn't prescriptive, but reading Debt and toward an anthropological theory of value will show you how varied human economies have been, including concrete examples of decentralized planned economies (the Iroquois), economies with institutionalized theft (some Maori) and economies centered around competitive gift giving (the Kawakawakw)
My main takeaway was that real economies are always way weirder than the academic categories they fall into.
Towards an anthropological theory of value by Graeber has more examples, Debt is a more fun read and articulates the existence of alternatives more explicitly.
Oh, and the audible narration is a pretentious Englishman, just a warning.
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Appropriate distribution data and infrastructure from Amazon, Walmart, etc, then centerly plan distribution based on need. Might need something else for particularly scarce goods.
Amazon and Walmart are common fun examples because supply warehouses and national supply chains are easy ways for people to understand what a planned economy might look like, but there are a ton of logistics companies whose data and infrastructure would be more useful, particularly ones who own large amounts of shipping containers or cargo planes.
Planned economies would be much more viable and robust nowadays. The internet and big data have been such game changers in that area that even decentralized planned economies are potentially viable (these would amount to something similar to markets, but optimized for something other than infinite growth of increasingly untethered numbers)
Planned economies? Thats red-fashism, tankie. Checkmate!
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:geordi-yes: Post scarcity and replicators.
I said this in another comment, but The People's Republic of Walmart is an excellent book that covers this exact topic. Paul Cockshott also covers this in depth, but I haven't yet read any of his books on the topic.
This isn't prescriptive, but reading Debt and toward an anthropological theory of value will show you how varied human economies have been, including concrete examples of decentralized planned economies (the Iroquois), economies with institutionalized theft (some Maori) and economies centered around competitive gift giving (the Kawakawakw)
My main takeaway was that real economies are always way weirder than the academic categories they fall into.
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Towards an anthropological theory of value by Graeber has more examples, Debt is a more fun read and articulates the existence of alternatives more explicitly.
Oh, and the audible narration is a pretentious Englishman, just a warning.
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