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Exactly. Monopolism is bad, but markets can be a ludicrously powerful tool. I'm personally a georgist, which is an economic ideology that holds we should have free markets free of rent-seeking and monopolism. It aims to do that mainly by policies such as land value taxes, Pigouvian taxes (such as carbon tax), severance taxes (taxes on the extraction of finite natural resources), elimination of bad taxes and bad regulations, and intellectual property reform.

When the market fails to solve climate change, that's because carbon pollution is a negative externality, which tends to cause market failure. Price carbon correctly using taxes, and suddenly you have what is agreed upon by basically all economists as the best, most efficient climate policy.

When the housing market goes amok and housing becomes unaffordable, it's usually because land is fundamentally scarce and NIMBY regulations are manufacturing an artificial scarcity of housing. Much of those NIMBY policies like zoning make it literally illegal to build enough housing in the places that need it most. If you tax land -- a kind of tax regarded by almost all economists as the "perfect" tax -- you also remove the ability to speculate and hoard land. No more hoarding vacant lots in growing cities.

Markets are a tool. It'd be a stupid to throw out a powerful tool just because it fails under certain conditions. The key is you just gotta understand when markets fail and why, then implement technocratic policy to correct those failures.

East Germany is recovering from the massive theft the Treuhand did in the early ninties after the 1:1 Währungsreform every honest and sensible scientist warned about. The Wiedervereinigung destroyed East Germanys economy.

Though you're right that the Planwirtschaft in the GDR sucked big time,but not because it was planned. Rather it was a combination of different reasons, the ideologically driven lies in the managment, inability of the people who made the plans and the hidden classes in society. Not to mention the shit ton of money that went into surveillance. A really classless society with a planned economy based on efficieny would perform vastly different.

My man, what did you think the dot ML stood for?

you can block me if you don't want to see my posts on main, I don't have an issue with that

Probably most people, that had to live in poverty, through wars, and without advanced medicine and other tech?