Message from @Capitán Alatriste
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and near stop in innovation like medicine.
Not in the US
A need for another train track comes mostly by the need to have to transport more goods along it because it is reaching a point of inefficiency (consumption of fuel, carts and goods sent)
this was a huge issue in the soviet union
Since the overwhelming majority of that is private industry.
And china
They where reall inefficient at laying track that would bring resources where they needed to go
hell still are in places like laos, and cambodia
Nvm @Goblin_Slayer_Floki i misunderstood you
Of course but take into account the incredible difficult russian environement.
Yes but they have no indicators for how to efficently move and allocate resourses
Sobthey had a lot of waste
Production is a good indicator
Overbuilding and underbuilding
Units produced by time and consuption
Labor theory of value?
Overbuilding was certaiy an issue because of the terrible bureaucracy
^^^
This os true
But how else can you have government?
The soviets did not have an answer for this
Smaller communities in charge of local production
Ahhhh but thatvis a problem when your bread basket areas are needed to feed eveyone
The crimea and unkraine areas priduced most of the grain
Each area makes a count of what it makes and what it needs, and they intertrade. Basic Ricardian economics
And if you cannot distribute efficiently enought people starve
But that does not help when you do not have the transport to get the grain where it need to go
Siberia for example
Thats where the central state steps in
tribalism
Yes and look at how well of a job they did
Or regionalism
did well for germany
As well since they only care about their local groups. Then national defense is out
Just a bunch of fiefdom armies
National defence would be task for the central state
They needed to eat something
So people it was
There wouldnt be one. As they would be to busy with their small fiefs and not care about the central state. As well a central state would nullify communism and breed another stalin, mao, or pol pot