He probably just got a subscription to Nat . Geo . <| sep |> I ' ve had one since release , and have tried to ignore every release and temptation to melt it down . Staying faithful to it . <| sep |> Pie eaters <| sep |> I just activated the pictures , I didn ' t change them . <| sep |> Going out in a blaze of glory , burning up on atmospheric reentry <| sep |> Yes but the state would then have to calculate opportunity costs in terms of heterogenous goods instead of money prices . It would also not have the process of rooting out those that do poorly . In a market economy those that cannot stay afloat and incur losses have to either change their production process or abandon the project . The creative destruction would not be present if the state owns the means of production . And not only that , it would have to attempt to do interpersonal comparisons of utility regarding all those heterogeneous goods . Interpersonal comparison of utility is not possible if you subscribe to the view that we can only do ordinal utility i . e . ranking wantsends and not cardinal utility i . e . assigning utils utility units to wantsends . In the lecture from the Mises Institute , he does raise and address objections that were made to the calculation problem at the end which you can look up too if you want . edit uqkthrv 17 The URL pointed to the Ron Paul lecture in both hyperlinks , fixed itCalculation and Socialism Joseph T . SalernohQVd 6 Lm 93 w