the artificial market however is rarely advocated as the only element for the allocation of goods and services by its proponents as most also support a form of directly democratic planning for non-commercial goods and vital resources and in some cases regulation of the artificial market through planning also in the ids system of allocation of resources "the artificial market complements the envisaged direct democratic planning mechanism in the allocation of all goods and services on the basis of the crucial distinction introduced in this model between basic and nonbasic goods and services"