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Yes. Out of the federal military branches, only the coast guard can: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

What you say and what I say don't contradict. ICE is already acting as if martial law was declared, ignoring due process/habeas corpus. If Trump declared martial law, those that still follow laws, constitution and the courts would keep doing so and those that follow Trumps orders above all would also keep doing so. There would be no substantial change.

There would probably be no consequences for him, but the "martial law" would probably be ignored and not happen.

As I understand it, in the US, martial law can only legally happen if the courts are unable to function. Basically, if things are so bad courts are unable to judge people, you let the military judge them.

There are: https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/specifications/

They are just not listed in shops for poor people. (joking)

Big doubt on the size being the main factor, though it contributes. IMO the main factor is scarcity. An underfunded large organization will find way to operate efficiently. See NASA or some large charities.

A small startup with nearly unlimited Venture Capital will most of the time find a way to squander that money and get results that shouldn't take tenth of the money.

The difference being that there are natural mechanism to correct waste in private companies, if it becomes significant compared to its scale. A public company often won't have the same. E.g. which politician is going to go order layoffs? Hope he does not plan to get elected again. I think there is a good chance, if your company was public, the sw engineers would still be wasting time and resources. Perhaps on a different pointless project.

And that is before even addressing outright corruption and embezzlement.

Yeah, my parents work for a public utility. The level of waste, inefficiency and corruption there is comical. It may still be fine for core infrastructure like utilities to be that inefficient in order to be reliable, but certainly not for normal industries.

Or maybe my country is particularly bad at running them.

It means that the planner says, we need to have the designs and ability to mass produce low cost, high performance RISC-V cores for PCB integration by 2025.

But this is the hard part. Who is qualified to say that RISC-V is the way to go instead of x86? An elected politician? Experts? If experts, how do you select them? Who checks they really are experts? Who holds them accountable?

If there's someone who wants to start working on a design with a new team, there's going to be capital available for a startup.

Who and how decides if a startup is worthy of funding? How do you prevent ideas being rejected for personal reasons, e.g. religious objection? How do you prevent fraudulent startups?

If they need more capital they get it.

Who and how decides when it is no longer worth it? How do you avoid fraud, wastefulness, etc.?

Economic growth is just easy to check data.

That's debatable but ok.

Generally markets and competition do well in figuring out how to do something we don't know how to do well and cheap. Once we figure that out for some product or category, profits fall competitors fail and consolidation sets in, cost of production falls further due to decreasing duplication and increased scale.

Absolutely yes.

A sector that hasn't been relaxed for example is banking and for a good reason.

Yes, very good reason.

But beyond relaxing control, the other very important thing that was relaxed was foreign direct investment.

So the other big part of capitalism.

On Walmart, I think what you're looking at is the feedback mechanism of shop/factory data going up the stack.

I think this comes back to what you said before. If we are talking about established items, that you already have suppliers for, then you can centralize it.

But good luck getting beer from a small local brewery stocked. The more centralized, the less flexible and innovative.

Imo if you centralize on a scale of an entire national economy, you would have very hard time dealing with anything that's not a well established supply line already.

isn't Walmart the poster example of decentralized planning? It does the "planning" at the level of store selling final goods, where there is best access to data, such as shopping habits and trends. That's the point of decentralized planning, not having unreliable ad-hoc supply chains.

First of all, it is hilarious that as part of criticizing capitalism, you use economic growth as a metric instead of let's say availability of goods in stores. Yes, if your economy revolves around state directed things like building weapons, infrastructure and growing industry, it gets easier to manage than unpredictable consumer demands.

China started it's explosive growth when they relaxed their central control. I am not advocating some absolute libertarian market freedom either. Yes, state exerting control, ideally with consumer interests in mind, can be a good thing to avoid the pitfalls of "pure" capitalism. But there are also risks to that, see China overbuilding high speed rail and housing.

And finally, isn't Walmart the poster example of decentralized planning? It does the "planning" at the level of store selling final goods, where there is best access to data, such as shopping habits and trends. That's the point of decentralized planning, not having unreliable ad-hoc supply chains.

PS: To be clear, you also have many good points. I addressed only the ones I disagreed with.

In contrast, a socialist economy allocates resources and labour according to society's needs, which are determined by some mix of economic planning and limited market dynamics.

The only problem being, that while nice in theory, socialist economies never actually did that in practice. Since humanity has never figured out, how to actually do economic planning in some centralized or semi-centralized way without being very inefficient and corrupt. I used to think AI could do that one day, but I guess that was too optimistic...

It's easy to see capitalism is terrible. It's hard to see a better system, that could replace it.