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"LibRehab" is a place to point people to when they showcase clear signs of Liberalism (not in a mean way). It is also a place to proactively destroy your liberalism before it becomes counterrevolutionary.

Posts here should be a mix of simplified theory, countering of historical revisionism / anti-communist talking points, and a nonjudgmental space for those on the journey of deprogramming their mind.

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Efficient allocation of resources in communism (discuss.tchncs.de)

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I’ve been dabbling with the idea of communism for quite some time now, but one thing has always prevented me from being fully convinced. How do you allocate the inherently scarce resources. I strongly believe that a local person/company knows better how to allocate resources efficiently than a central government 100s km away. For example food. A central government will never be able to know the area as well as locals. How do you solve this?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I strongly believe that a local person/company knows better how to allocate resources efficiently than a central government 100s km away.

Do you consider this an efficient allocation of resources (skilled labour)? Thousands of engineers working in competing companies to come up with a product that is practically identical? And then thousands of other support staff and marketers and more working on shilling that product against one another?

You're looking at the question of the distribution of resources in an incredibly simple way, and not considering what taking tens of thousands of skilled workers away from these wasted projects and putting them towards progress can achieve. You're not looking at capitalism critically and asking yourself what parts of it are inefficient and wasteful.

The USSR went from feudal backwater to #2 world power in 30 years, and then first into space. It did so because it is vastly more efficient and this kind of allocation of resources.