It's been tried. It's failed a lot. People find (weird, unpredictable, uncomputable) ways to rebel.
Also, you get around to it in your last paragraph, but I was implicitly avoiding designing a system isomorphic to slavery; I guess I'm trying to steelman central planning. Hence the requirement to take consumer preferences into account.
It's been tried. It's failed a lot. People find (weird, unpredictable, uncomputable) ways to rebel.
Also, you get around to it in your last paragraph, but I was implicitly avoiding designing a system isomorphic to slavery; I guess I'm trying to steelman central planning. Hence the requirement to take consumer preferences into account.