Central Planning

In which Rat doesn't get to explain

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Transcript:

Cousin: — But what’s wrong with central planning, after all?
Rat: — Well, you see...
[The Central Planning Committee has not allocated sufficient resources to complete this strip]

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Although there certainly have been examples where planned economies have managed to mobilize resources to get things done quickly, lingering construction often becomes an issue. In Russian, there’s even a word for that: dolgostroy (lit. long-build). Consider also the somewhat famous Ryugyong Hotel of North Korea (under construction for almost forty years now), California High-Speed Rail or [insert your favorite example].

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