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Bingo! Although, this system would categorically eliminate the issue from the following Soviet-era joke:

> A man goes into a shop and asks: “You don’t have any meat?” “No,” replies the lady, “We don’t have any fish, it’s the shop next door that doesn’t have meat.”

Under the new system, the man wouldn’t have to bounce from store-to-store. There would be one convenient online shop with no meat AND no fish.

true, at the same time nowadays the state and the central bank are already taking the hit, at the place of the private economy.

An AI driven command economy does not have to be perfect to outperform a free market. If an AI-driven command economy outperforms free markets, the free market dies, just as when self-driving cars become more cheaply insurable because they cause less insured loss, and stop entailing traffic enforcement costs, the human driven car dies.