[WS:] So why does being employees of a planning agency disqualifies them? If it is not the title but rather entrepreneurship, why cannot entrepreneurs be employed by a planning agency?
>From what I read I see that what you seem to be arguing is the merits
of wiki vs. centralized management e.g. Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia
Britannica. As I see it, both have merits, but the former has lower
costs due to the use of volunteers (the other one uses paid staff.) I
also understand that most so called entrepreneurs work long hours as
volunteers hoping that they will eventually succeed, whereas employees
of a planning agency have paid 9-5 jobs.
>From that pov, the entrepreneur system is more efficient than the
planning system, but it is so largely due to hyper-exploitation
(unpaid work) - hardly the basis for any claim to any superiority.
If, otoh, you are arguing that perfect planning is not possible because there will be always unforeseen consequences, and that a decentralized entrepreneur system is better equipped in dealing with these contingencies than centralized planning because it can "localize" or contain the unforeseen costs instead of spreading them through the system - you got one sympathetic ear.
-- Wojtek
"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."