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akkartik  ·  4098 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Experiment: What's YOUR most controversial opinion, Hubski?

Socialism envisioned an economy Steve Jobs would be proud of -- centralized, coherent, running like clockwork.

Capitalism envisioned an economy like an ant hill, optimal behavior emerging out of individual incentives. (Libertarianism even more so.)

It's time for a synthesis. Socialism takes away all incentive, and capitalism puts incentives outside man's control. Perhaps the best of both worlds would be to design -- and continually tweak -- an economy's incentives in open, transparent, centralized, coherent fashion, and let economic activity emerge from it?

[My book of the year 2012: Red Plenty. http://akkartik.name/blog/red-plenty; https://plus.google.com/110440139189906861022/posts/V1N3toqm...]