This helped me, thanks. I also think that a bottom-up drive of demand (vs top-down) might be more efficient in the end.

China has been mentioned a lot in this thread, I think that is a good example to take, to answer my question about viable alternatives that have been applied successfully.

I can see that. Anecdotal, but when I was a kid we used to have a Soviet built stereo that my parents got before I was born. It was running fine several decades afterwards. I bet if I go to their place and dig it out of the cellar it can still play cassette tapes even today.

I guess the problem in such a system arises when people no longer want to make things well and for that I assume there would be good feedback mechanisms to somehow move those people out of the critical path of making the thing.

Also, one bigger advantage of this system would be that repairability is built into the process as a prerequisite, not an afterthought (or because x or y organization “forces” the “poor capitalist” to make their crap nominally repairable).

There is something I am struggling to reconcile with when looking at centralized planning and distribution of goods under a communist form of the economy. As I understand it, under such a system, there is very thorough planning on what gets produced, how much, and how it is distributed. Talking here more about consumer goods, eg shoes for instance. In this system, I think an issue to be contended with is concerns around quality and actual demand for shoes, as well as the missing incentive to produce the best shoes that exist. Since every year (let’s say) production is planned, what’s to stop such a system from either under or over producing (since as I understand it, demand is driven top-down)? Also, what incentive does such a system have to enforce quality?

Posting this here because I want to learn and understand.

I am already convinced of the failures of capitalism, I see it every day when reading the news. I want to understand what is a viable alternative, and whether it has already been applied successfully somewhere.

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Really good! Reminds me a bit of Mandriva Linux installer’s look and feel. Yes, I am as old as rocks.

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