Cicero posted:

The point is that even with modern technology available, socialists can still find plenty of ways to screw up central planning, so no, it's not a simple matter of "socialists screwed it up before because they didn't have modern tech, if we did it now obviously things would work!" And we're not talking your run-of-the-mill recession where you lose some jobs and things are tight for a while, we're talking about it becoming difficult to find basic food staples and medicine across the country. You can read the Venezuela thread if you don't believe me.