<i>America certainly is not a pure capital system, it&#x27;s a mix of regulations and financial forces and incentives.</i><p>Yes, sadly.<p><i>It&#x27;s solvable if you remove ideology from loaded terms like communism, capitalism, socialism, etc.</i><p>No, it&#x27;s not.<p>Claiming that you can solve the calculation problem by ignoring economic ideology is like claiming you can solve the travelling salesman problem in O(N) time, if only you&#x27;d remove the ideology of P&#x2F;NP :)<p>This is a problem of mathematics, not of ideology.<p><i>I imagine China is making somewhat of an attempt at centrally planned economic calculation.</i><p>I hear that&#x27;s working out really well for them lately.