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Commmunism never worked. Util we develop artificial superintelligence it will not work. Billions of people making decisions involves ridiculous amounts of data and processing power. Human brain has around 100 trillion synapses and there is around 8 billions of humans.

But social market economies do work right now.

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Can you do it with a steelman instead of a strawman?

Social market economies exists and do fine - Nordic countries, even China.

That's the only version of "communism" I can see as a steelman.

Communism as a centrally planned economy can not work until central planning system will be as smart and knowledgeable about peoples needs as the people themselves.

Communism had the problem of the centralized agenda run by a few power-hungry humans, which isn't very communal. That was the agenda problem. As you get more people into it the communal aspect got weaker.

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