Afaik this happened with every single instance of a communist country. Communism seems like a pretty good idea on the surface, but then why does it always become autocratic?

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    Spoken like someone that hasn’t paid attention to the supply chains of places like Walmart.

    We already have command economies. They exist and are functional. The owners are simply siphoning away the surplus value.

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      So you’re saying you agree?

      Walmart is absolutely a result of capitalism, those intricate supply chains are in place to make money. Maybe we could do it without a common way to track needs for a while, but would it adapt? Would the alternative resist corruption better? The invention of Money almost seems an inevitable consequence from one perspective.

      I don’t think this answers the original question, but it’s an interesting side topic.