alt Hacker News> Maybe resources shouldn't be distributed purely using a free market that can easily be manipulated
Which kind of resource allocation do you suggest?
At least one can clearly tell that existing experiments with planned economies went really bad, so how do you want to overcome the problems that plagued existing big-scale experiments of planned economies?
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Why does everyone on the right always read "not totally free economy" as "planned economy".
Regulate the markets. Have the government own natural monopolies. Have large government sellers and buyers in all markets. Break up monopolies. Ban harmful products and services. Ban marketing to children. Ban dishonest marketing. Ban planned obsolescence. Increase the capital gains tax to companies are incentivized to invest in production rather than pay out dividends. Ban stock buybacks. Have CEOs be personally responsible for crimes (remove the LL from LLC).
Those are good places to start.
Not arguing for planned economies exactly but we now have computers on a different level. Amazon, walmart, etc. are all incredibly massive logistics systems that function a lot like planned economies. These are only possible with modern tech.