The socialist calculation debate
I call myself a socialist but I wasn&#x27;t born 100 years ago so I&#x27;ve accepted that absolute centrally planned economies are poor and money and markets will never be abolished.<p>But what I want is more democratically forms of corporations, government policies that produce less income inequality and regulations over business which prevents monopolies and market distortions, along with much stronger unions (ideally a situation where we keep the government, corporations and unions all more or less at odds with each other in order to maximize actual individual liberty--defined to exclude the current contradictory definition of liberty as &quot;wielding as much capital power as you possibly can over other people&quot;).<p>What we have right now is a situation where corporations run the government and are in the process of consolidating every more tightly into monopolistic cabals.  That is also the end goal of unregulated free market capitalism, it isn&#x27;t the optimum allocation of capital, it is the optimum exploitation of labor for profits.<p>Yeah, the magic wand solution of government-run economies and doing away with money and markets doesn&#x27;t work.  Outside of some sophomorically edgy and loud tankies on twitter and reddit nobody really wants to do that, and it wouldn&#x27;t get anywhere if they tried.