[quote=@Kratesis]
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This is the core of why communist countries fail and I have yet to see it addressed in a serious and detailed way by those who advocate for communist systems of government.
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It was more or less impossible in the past, and would be ridiculously difficult now, but I do think we are currently developing the model necessary for central planning in the future. If virtually all transactions are cataloged digitally, a central planning computer could organize the economy in a way that no Soviet style central planning board ever could. The main positive would be obvious of course; it would eliminate quite a bit of waste, both from the inefficiencies of the market system, and through the wealth currently wasted by pooling at the top. The main negative (that I can think of at least) would be the loss of Capitalism's ability to create wants that the consumer would never have thought of on their own (I don't think computerized central planning would have invented Gushers, for instance) 

Shit, maybe the path to post-scarcity communism started with Amazon's recommendation system.