>mises.org
The Misean calculation problem is a joke, right? It liteally depends on the socialism is totalitarian meme. Also, for anarchists, it's completley irrelevant.
Any theory autists care to give the problem the quick one-two?
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Liam Carter
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Isaac Hill
The ironic failing of this criticism is that socialism does reward work by allowing workers direct control over the products of their labor. It is ironic, because capitalism singularly fails to reward work.
Benjamin Wilson
Let's be honest, any lolbert "critique" of socialism is a strawman of big gubbbermint that actually applies to capitalism.
Aaron Butler
This. Giving them any attention is just validating their completely shallow or outright misleading interpretations of socialist theory.
Dominic Collins
Not really.
Not at all, in fact it's worse for them. The Austrians were at least correct to point out the difficulties of a decentralized socialism. How exactly is the commune of New York supposed to understand the needs of Seattle, LA, and a few thousand other economic districts simultaneously? Every single decision it makes would have to take into account every other decision of the rest and the other agents would all have to do the same, pure nonsense. The USSR under Khrushchev scrapped the industrial ministries in favor of 104 regional planning districts but in practice this was unworkable and the economy remained centrally directed. You could conceivably divide a country like the US up into several different planning districts but dozens would be unthinkable.
Don't get me wrong, "socialists" who buy into the ECP deserve to be ridiculed for their pessimism and complete disregard for empirical evidence. But this is all still something to take into account.
Samuel Miller
good post m8
David Walker
With the increase in communication technologies - which doesn't appear to be slowing any time soon - I don't think decentralization is necessarily a problem in itself.
Hunter Perez
IIRC, one solution to the issue of the supposed calculation problem is stupid simple: produce a sufficient surplus to act as a "buffer" for expected deviations in the amount of goods society needs.