[lbo-talk] An Orgy of Speculation?

[Miles Jackson]

On 03/14/2011 05:19 PM, SA wrote:
>  They never say it in simple words, but the argument is this: In a 
> non-centrally-planned economy, the economy evolves without every 
> detail being consciously determined. Therefore we are unfree, slaves 
> to a machine we ourselves built.
>
> E.g., when Zuckerberg made Facebook, it set in motion disruptive 
> forces over which we have no control. If we were truly free, 
> Zuckerberg would have made Facebook as part of an integrally 
> configured 5 Year Plan, in which all the subsequently needed economic 
> adjustments would have been determined not through "blind economic 
> forces" but through democratically planned foresight.
>
> SA

This is some pretty gruesome bullshit.  Do you know anything at all 
about life in societies without commodities?  (Hint: I'm not talking 
about the Soviet Union.)

Miles