I'm glad folk like Mises' deconstruction of the communist calculation problem. The core problem is that, in communism, the person who pays for stuff isn't the one who decides whether it gets made or not.
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I don't see why you couldn't just use money.
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Money leads to inequality, and while I don't care about that, a handful of massive brokerage firms would emerge, and they might destroy the system and convert it to oligarchy. A system that converts itself into something else automatically isn't worth designing for its own sake
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It's going to convert itself into an oligarchy anyway.
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The current system already has. Mine wouldn't
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It would quickly be restricted to a small minority. Which would be the same minority you got if you just used money. Even assuming the prediction market can in fact measure the effects.
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The minority would be much larger in a system where everyone is given social currency. It's the difference between meritocracy vs entrenched oligarchy
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The minority would be the exact same minority.
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The set of social currency holders would include all adult citizens while the set of investors would be a tiny fraction of society
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