Honest question: I fucking hate neolibs just as much as the next guy and the idea that people always make rational decisions as consumers is nothing more than a myth, but didn't they sorta kinda have a point when they said that prices are necessary in an economy as a system of information?
I currently struggle to imagine how a planned economy can take into account sudden shifts in demand and react flexibly to people changing their mind about shit they want, or providing them with a vast choice of goods that they can try until they find one that matches their needs. I feel like this is only possible with some amount of speculation or trial-and-error, and cannot be reasonably planned ahead.
Are there good marxist economic theories that address the "information problem" - in other words, how a central planning commitee can figure out the preferences in a society efficiently and then also respond to them without making concessions to Porky? I am already familiar with Oskar Lange, Paul Cockshott and such, but I feel like I haven't really found an adequate answer to this issue yet.
All this talk about emergency decommissioning governments is quite silly
>I am already familiar with Oskar Lange, Paul Cockshott
Then why make this thread. As people like these two have said, we can use prices and demand feedback even if the MOP are collectively owned.
You artificially make this an issue if you just want to be differently for the sake of it.
>>2770692Because this discourse might be more than just Oskar Lange and Paul Cockshott? Imagine lmao
This fucking thread again
>>2762201>>2770696Didn't see that one, mb
As Carl Menger writes, economisation occurs by degrees of scarcity, which means that the less money you have, the more rationally you will spend it on needs, rather than secondary desires. Menger then (as the founder of the Austrian school) proves that economies of scale are increasingly irrational (as attested to by the division of labour which scales consumption by luxury). So then, an economy is divided between (i) needs and (ii) wants. Needs can be planned in production, while wants can be privatised by markets, since they are unnecessary. We can divide this between a public sector and private sector, where frivolity only occurs at the proper threshold of societal need, which then inclines toward the means of indulgence. Cockshott also resolves to the fact that markets will exist where consumer goods are produced, because this is how products of this kind are best distributed.
>>2770688If you're smart enough you could probably figure out a model of communal resource use that allows individuals and groups of people to produce whatever they want at a large enough scale to create the new matcha labubu banger for the youth, bought with labor vouchers or something. I'm not that smart so I'll direct you to indep.network, they host talks about democratic planning on zoom from time to time and you may be able to ask them a question in person. In my view, the question is not whether or not we can handle consumer goods in a socialist economy, but whether we want to produce them on the scale allowed by modern technology given the effects of consoomerism on society and the environment.