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by throwaway75787 1629 days ago
Many Americans are hard-working janitors, garbage men and hospital orderlies. They are absolutely crucial jobs. I would gladly take a part-time job mopping floors if I could pay the rent, save a little, and then do my own thing.

I'm not going to say Communism failed because they didn't have machine learning, but I have a feeling that a more equitable and humane economy is possible if all the variables in the equation are tuned right.

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> I'm not going to say Communism failed because they didn't have machine learning, but I have a feeling that a more equitable and humane economy is possible if all the variables in the equation are tuned right.

You might enjoy the book Red Plenty, which talks about a group of mathematicians who wanted to optimize the soviet economy with linear optimization, but were ultimately stymied by internal corruption and Brezhnevism.