The whole point of a command economy is to have a central planning authority that oversees production of x tons of potatoes, y tons of steel and z T-34 tanks. They explicitly ignore abstract financial metrics like GDP and stock prices. They still ruined the environment.
Unless you're arguing that the mere existence of abstract concepts somehow degrades the environment, I don't see how this proves your point.
My point is, what does it serve to build tanks? If the goal is to protect "our nation", then we are serving the abstractions.
If you take a "command economy" and tell it to feed the people of the world, restore natural areas, shelter people... Then the abstractions serves real things.
The whole point of a command economy is to have a central planning authority that oversees production of x tons of potatoes, y tons of steel and z T-34 tanks. They explicitly ignore abstract financial metrics like GDP and stock prices. They still ruined the environment.
Unless you're arguing that the mere existence of abstract concepts somehow degrades the environment, I don't see how this proves your point.