[hanamizu]

I was at university in the 60s. I remember one professor stating that the Soviet system was superior. “Look at toothpaste in the grocery store. Dozens of brands in several sizes. In the Soviet system there is only one brand and one size. Much more efficient”. Choice and freedom are bad he was basically saying.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I was at university in the 60s. I remember one professor stating that the Soviet system was superior. “Look at toothpaste in the grocery store. Dozens of brands in several sizes. In the Soviet system there is only one brand and one size. Much more efficient”. Choice and freedom are bad he was basically saying.

Much more efficient ^cheaper.

The central point about socialism is that socialists have no vision for improvement, only for cheapness. They promise lower cost, or free. They deliver cheap - as in, shoddy. In quality and in schedule. What good is cheap, when there is nothing in stock?

In Search of Excellence:

Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies
by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H., Jr. Waterman

makes one salient point that I keep coming back to. If you aren’t trying to improve, you aren’t staying the same. You are getting worse. And socialism is about disconnecting the value of quality to the customer from the cost of production.