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The '''economic calculation problem''' — Mises' claim that rational allocation is impossible without market prices — is the standard theoretical objection to socialism, and Haz Al-Din treats it as a pseudo-problem built on a false picture of what planning requires.
The '''economic calculation problem''' — Mises's magic trick: "without prices, nobody knows anything, therefore socialism impossible, therefore capitalism forever." Complete bullshit, and Haz doesn't pretend otherwise.


== Haz's handling ==
== Haz on it ==
* The dismissal ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/10ec3a31-ea24-45c9-8219-68350a003135/ INTENSE DEBATES stream]): "It's complete bullshit... based on faulty premises from the beginning." The premise: that everything must "collapse into one number" — price — for coordination. But reality is already centrally coordinated: "the mode of production is already centralized... objectively these supply chains have to all come together somehow from very disparate origins" ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/5e76e0d7-c4cc-459e-b8b1-65ade98827ae/ MASSIVE DEBATE ROYALE]) the pencil argument turned against Friedman: the global pencil proves planning exists, markets merely mystify it.
Asked for a pitch against it ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/10ec3a31-ea24-45c9-8219-68350a003135/ INTENSE DEBATES | FBI ATTACK stream]):
* The deeper point ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/00e75c5d-493b-453c-9b4b-bca9603c6ed7/ WE'RE SO BACK stream]): the calculation debate assumes a "common measure" is needed in the absence of exchange value — Haz gestures at Cantor's mathematics of the infinite: multiple incommensurable dimensions don't need collapse into a scalar to be handled; the demand for a single metric is the value-form's own prejudice generalized into ontology.
 
* Historical answer: OGAS the Soviet cybernetics proposal for computerized planning, discussed on [https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/black-lenin/nnuhnb76u_0/ the Lib Discord debate] via Cockshott — the calculation problem was being answered technically before the USSR fell to other causes.
> "It's complete bullshit. The burden is not on me to debunk anything. There's nothing to debunk. It was based on faulty premises from the beginning."
 
The faulty premise: coordination requires collapsing everything into one number. But the economy is '''already''' centrally coordinated "the mode of production is already centralized... objectively these supply chains have to all come together somehow from very disparate origins" ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/5e76e0d7-c4cc-459e-b8b1-65ade98827ae/ MASSIVE DEBATE ROYALE stream]). The pencil exists. Somebody coordinated the pencil. It wasn't "the market" — it was capital, and price is just the receipt.
 
Deeper ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/00e75c5d-493b-453c-9b4b-bca9603c6ed7/ WE'RE SO BACK stream]): the demand that everything reduce to a single metric is the value-form's own prejudice dressed as mathematics. And historically the USSR had the answer on the drawing board — OGAS, the cybernetic planning network — before politics killed it, not economics ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/youtube/black-lenin/nnuhnb76u_0/ the Lib Discord debate]; see [[Project Cybersyn]]).


== See also ==
== See also ==

Latest revision as of 11:02, 21 August 2026

The economic calculation problem — Mises's magic trick: "without prices, nobody knows anything, therefore socialism impossible, therefore capitalism forever." Complete bullshit, and Haz doesn't pretend otherwise.

Haz on it

Asked for a pitch against it (INTENSE DEBATES | FBI ATTACK stream):

> "It's complete bullshit. The burden is not on me to debunk anything. There's nothing to debunk. It was based on faulty premises from the beginning."

The faulty premise: coordination requires collapsing everything into one number. But the economy is already centrally coordinated — "the mode of production is already centralized... objectively these supply chains have to all come together somehow from very disparate origins" (MASSIVE DEBATE ROYALE stream). The pencil exists. Somebody coordinated the pencil. It wasn't "the market" — it was capital, and price is just the receipt.

Deeper (WE'RE SO BACK stream): the demand that everything reduce to a single metric is the value-form's own prejudice dressed as mathematics. And historically the USSR had the answer on the drawing board — OGAS, the cybernetic planning network — before politics killed it, not economics (the Lib Discord debate; see Project Cybersyn).

See also

References