I skimmed the article, being knee-deep in number crunching and having already read an earlier article about optimal parking.  The author threw "socialist" in the title as red meat to bait people into reading.  Made me look!<p>It sounds like a ploy but it hints at something real, namely "scientific socialism" where certain individuals claim the power to engineer the lives of others, by force if necessary.  As it turns out, force is <i>always</i> necessary, and this turned much of the planet into a bloody abbatoir during the 20th century.<p>Math and science make me humble, not arrogant.  Familiarity with distributed systems, computability, chaos, probability, trade, and the subjective theory of value have enhanced my appreciation for purely voluntary action, and my disgust with the top-down application of force.