>>1832595Nearly all socialist planning is, at current, fiction. I can't respond to a broad-based charge of being "austrian" (except by restating that generally Austrians believe planning
doesn't work, I believe planning
works but isn't particularly
liberatory, and that most attempts at participation either won't work as intended - the ol' anarchist discussion circle - or aren't democratic - representative democracy, voting with your wallet, sortition…) and I obviously can't give more specific critiques without discussing a specific system.
Now you might say that's fine, it's better than what we've got now - probably true - but we wouldn't pretend for a moment that a revolution in human freedom had been delivered by a hypothetical social democratic country with 60% public ownership and a chunk of private industry's shares being held by workers, all co-ordinated by a planning board, rather than a difference-of-degree in a system where you're still basically yoked to churning out commodities and services that you don't care about (perhaps each month you even have to attend a boring meeting you never speak at where you discuss whether to make more red or blue widgets…) so that you can exchange that toil for access the ones you do care about and the line can go up.
>>1832608It's not necessarily that they'd be fucking with you, it's just a conflict of interests. If completion of a plan demands overtime, but you don't want to work overtime, you're in conflict.
>>1832610Being told what to do by a computer is about the only thing I can imagine more miserable than being told what to do by someone else.