Central Planning

There are some things that can be centrally planned. Some things that can't be. We can't centrally plan the personal lives every individual and the way how they use their personal property. However that being said, some things do need central planning so that it doesn't fall for corruption or serve petty bourgeious interests.

Water vapor and CO2 causes the earth to heat up. Facts don't care about your feelings.

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Central planning is necessary to prevent a climate change induced environmental apocalypse. Who gives a shit about luxury goods. Besides, we'll probably figure it out with all the computational power we have now.

>Why are you for or against central planning?
The usefulness of data isn't just something that scales in proportion with size, seeing the connections between sets of data becomes possible by having it all in one place. Having a consumer market is not some logical opposite to having centralized data processing.

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Everyone does. Even the anarkiddie Kropotkin understood the necessity of luxuries.

For central planning, markets produce bad distributions of income. And could even bring back crisis cycles.
Luxuries are unproductive, and if you keep improving the quality of regular goods those would eventually start to impinge on the luxuries sector which would then be compelled to seek artificial limitations, and you might end up recreating the fake product segmentation we have today where for example some processors are intentionally "gimped" in order to have a "lower end models."

Another examples are the expensive & over-engineered mechanical watches, with enough advances in 3d metal printing those could be mass-produced cheaply. Something like this has already happened to designer-bags, the cheap knock-offs are indistinguishable from originals.

Somebody might figure out how to procedurally generate fancy product design patterns and then what ? Are you not just going to see a luxury sector pursue intentional decadent wastefulness.

The only reason it lasted so long was because it was propped up by the West as a counterpoint to the USSR. As soon as Gorbachev tried to implement something similar in the form of Perestroika, the USSR began to collapse. It's purpose served, the IMF began to demand the loans it had given out before to be repaid. The resulting Yugoslavian collapse was far harder and far bloodier than that of the USSR as it's market socialism had exacerbated existing disparities between the regions for a good decade or so.