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Also, enormous monopolistic companies are centrally planned themselves. Companies like Walmart and Amazon have internal economies the size of some national economies, and their employees, teams, and departments aren't buying and selling resources amongst themselves -- the allocation of these resources is planned.
Attempting to run the internal operations of a large company like the free market was actually what killed Sears:
Anyone who's worked at a large company could tell you that the plans they make aren't flawless, but central planning at scale is not some scary untested idea, or a disproven relic of the past. It's happening right now in large swaths of major industries.
I never knew that about Sears, that's very interesting! Great comment, comrade!
Excellent work. This is the main good thing to take from The peoples republic of wal-mart.