"...but instead of maximizing profits they will maximize production."
You don't understand the information provided by profits, or how prices and profits inform all market actors as a decentralized information network. Production without knowledge of consumer needs is waste.
So, we only fill orders we have, no orders, no production.
You know, supply and demand.
Price signals are not the only way to measure the production, but they are a mantra repeated to me ad nauseum as i try to break folks free from their bankster controlled programming.
How does central planning understand individual subjective value?
By ignoring it?
What is central planning?
The factory takes orders from the warehouses who dont order things they dont have empty shelfspace for.
If you cant give your goods away its time to make something else.
If you cant keep up with demand add workers.
Its pretty easy, actually.
Please dont get caught up in boxes that need not exist.
That only exist because teachers need to say something that adds up to an hour.
Or looks good in a brochure.
Fillers to make books thicker, or sound difficult to understand, can generally be dismissed with enough common sense, but that generally isnt the goal if you are selling 'advanced degrees'.
Find yourself a hillbilly and you'll learn more wisdom than any random dozen professors will ever impart to you, imo.
I don't see how that would work even in a static economy, because it makes too many assumptions even then, and we live in a dynamic world of change and advancement.
What assumptions?
You assume that economic production is as simple as discovering a baseline inventory to maintain, and then assigning production orders to maintain that inventory. Never mind the economic calculation problem, changes in technology, changes in supply and demand, or any other favtors in the real economy.
Lol, I don't care why you can't give your products away, but if you can't then you need to produce something else.
Food is always a good choice.
If we don't want to overcomplicate things much.
The facts are that as long as the people that keep the train on the track today, keep it on the track for tomorrow, it's not coming off the track until they stop doing the work, and even then, they can hand it off to somebody younger.
The world only needs so many shoes, that is a knowable number.
How many hours each person would need to give could be debated, especially in light of the changed paradigm, but this too is a knowable number.
All the 30% of us that work a job would need to do is to continue production.
Don't let the banksters fool you, they need us more than we need them, we already grow, harvest, distribute, cook, and clean up the food.
They have to pay people to do it.
Robots will not replace us undercrapitalism until starving workers are no longer a concern.
The reason they havent replaced us like they did spinning wheels and buggy whips is because the rich people are scared of the masses rising up in the crunch.
Sadly, they could consume for free, too, but prefer lording their game over us.
It's our buying into it that perpetuates it.
I know hillbillies well enough that the odds of one being marxist are slim to none.
Also they got real interesting ideas on ownership of the 'means of existance'.
Yeah, they aint real big on book learnin.
All those outsiders have mostly killed them off.
Still, lots of wisdom in the hills.
"I live back in the woods, you see
My woman and the kids, and the dogs, and me"
Some of us ventured out. There were two people in my third grade class.
;)
I graduated with a class of 31, after moving from a class of 500.
There were 400 kids in the skool.
Some of them lived in tents.
Now its one big neighborhood.
Its got a bank and everything.
I still miss the hills.