Message from @Mr. Nessel
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huh
i did exactly the same
Yes there is, they suffer from a lot of the same problems like governments do.
I don't think the issue with their plans was prices
They were simply rewarding the least effective parts of their economy to become more developed
why does this keep happening to me
fired for no good reason
Not prices per se
Prices for capital goods
Idk. Afaik when corn output looked bad someone like Krushchev just focused attention and resources exclusively there
Which leads to negative consequences
Like virgin land not actually being that good
Or other parts of the economy being left behind
Also big issue was the focus on heavy industry
Not to mention when they industrialized the country by forcing rural people into cities and selling corn and whatnot abroad causing a famine
Just so they could buy tractors
I'd really advise you to look up the calculation-problem, if you find the time. *A Socialist Empire: The Incas of Peru* is a really good demonstration of it. The Peruvians were more socialistic than about any other society that ever existed, and it functioned. However, it did so because their economy was extremely primitive. All their tools were multi-purpose and no production process took more than three or four steps, at most.
I'm familiar they didn't use money
Yep
I wonder if they kept track with knots though
I doubt them not using quasi currency
Like debt based one
I haven't heard of them doing so, except in the border regions
Maybe within the upper classes, too
Idk what other use they would have for the knots
Calculation and keeping statistics
They had a very good census system
Always knew which cities required how much food
They never suffered a famine, from what I know
Even though they migrated populations when they felt like it, to split up rebellious communities, for example. Yet they never fell into a Malthusian trap, which is something that tends to happen with population displacement
Might be because the people there didn't need to fear Stalin when reporting bad harvests
Yep
The Incas could be brutal but they really tried hard not to suffer any famine
They flayed enemies and one of them decreed that all children should have their skulls deformed so they'd become docile
It wasn't such benevolence, however. Their record keeping and statistical work just blows my mind. Imagine micromanaging an entire economy using only knots. I don't think they even had the wheel.
Oh, and one thing that I just found mindblowing: To build a house, they needed sand, rocks, geometry, and lots of labor. Their cities? All built using methods that are ingenious and labor-consuming, and almost without any specialized capital at all. Or any capital, really.
The incas are rage
brutal
without mercy
but the spaniards
they are worse
rip and tear until its done
I just got an online assignment in my government class to create a new political party, any ideas?
uh oh
sounds like trouble
I haven’t been told how much edginess I can put into it lol
Probably not much
I'm not sure how you'd go about asking that question either