• dogsoahC@lemm.eeOP
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, I agree. All the power to the workers. My idea of a planned economy is probably not too far off from what you describe in that last paragraph. But I’m no economist, so please don’t ask me to put forward a coherent policy proposal. xD

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      3 months ago

      Ok that’s a great deal more based of you than how centrally planned economies are discussed and explained in formal economic education! Actually kind of a relief to hear XD

      Historically, centrally planned economies refer to a system where a (usually arbitrarily appointed / unelected / unaccountable) committee makes all the decisions about what is produced, how, and for whom. Typically, this tended to result in the members of a centralized planning committee becoming corrupted by greed and making economic decisions that personally benefited themselves.

      Replacing the committee with the consensus of the population would likely be better described as decentralized / distributed / democratized rather than centralized planning.