Oh, I almost forgot to refute your Earnest remark that...

"You certainly can't say that for the capitalist economies like the USA."

It just so happened that canals, ports, bridges, multilane divided expressways, water works, sewers, and other infrastructure were built by governments and financed in part with profits extracted from capitalist markets. (Financing is extracted also from the populace by government borrowing, which is fiendishly inflationary.) And did you know that the ugly, secularist layouts of many streets in America are the result of central planning? I'd wager that you did, just like you know that Lincoln and the GOP were under the influence of Marxism before their big, brutal war, the very first to test the industrial revolution for its ability to ruin Life during wartime, too.

You're welcome, Earnest, for explaining most of yourself to you in just a few paragraphs spread over several replies. People pay lots of money for that sort of service, you know, but I don't prescribe drugs or string you along to increase my own billable hours.

You're welcome also for the hint that if there is climate change casued by O-C-O omissions, THEN central planners and their public-private partnerships are among the leading perps of climate change. Central planning and public-private partnerships work the same way to stir up world wars, building nuclear weapons, and do some other nasty stuff, too, but I'm happy to report that a few people are figuring out how to eliminate all that from this once beautiful world.

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