Democratic East-Asia wrote:Ashkera wrote:America should partner with Australia to build a rocket sled launch, rather than relying on inferior Communist equipment.
Not just Communists, Anarchist Communists - twice as bad! Good man.
>Inferior
Who said we make inferior equipment? China's been modernized for far longer just for your knowledge.
The equipment is inferior because it is Communist. The weakness of the anti-state ideology, divorced from the true history of Man as uplifted by the great soul of Ishi to do battle with the gods, leaks through every pore, valve, and gasket.
More seriously, opportunity cost. If you run your Communist economy without a price mechanism, substituting the use of heuristical planning algorithms running on supercomputers, you forego the opportunity to distribute the processing of economic planning to your entire population, losing out on a wealth of information and processing power. The equipment might be perfectly fine, it's just costing more to keep it that way.






