&gt; This is the weirdest thing about the dichotomy of Communism&#x27;s popular resurgence in tech circles.<p>The weirdest thing to me is that it&#x27;s pretty hard to produce and maintain software systems in the face of limited resources, interactions with the real world, bosses that don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s going on, etc. But somehow it seems not just possible but <i>optimal</i> to top-down design the ways billions of people live their lives. It really doesn&#x27;t matter if the designer is one person or a committee of the proletariat. That&#x27;s an NP-ridiculous problem.<p>In the fact of that, I&#x27;d rather individuals make decisions about their own lives.