The *worst thing* about democracy is this thing people do where they vote based on peer pressure anticipating how everyone else will vote The irrational feedback loop this causes is responsible for at least 50% of the disastrous decisions made by voting
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The ones who are like "Why should there be five different brands of the same kind of canned soup on the shelf? Why can't there just be one company that makes exactly as much soup as people actually eat" etc
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With modern computers, tracking systems, and manufacturing methods we might actually be able to produce exactly enough but I don't think we should be anxious about it. Is the worst case you delay/frustrate the production of something else by using up a resource?
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It's fairly debatable whether the problem of a planned economy actually is solvable just by having "modern computers" - the best computers can only be as good as the data you feed them, and giving them that data requires some pretty intrusive surveillance
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