Yes but the state would then have to calculate opportunity costs in terms of heterogenous goods instead of money prices . It does feel weird yet possible imo . Specially within the context of an information society and its quantification of everything . With a bunch of trial and error essays and some ground knowledge in the subjects of the different queries it doesn ' t feel so alien to me . But , once again , I ' ll take a look another day into those lectures , thanks . It would also not have the process of rooting out those that do poorly . I don ' t agree with this though . You can recognise if something is performing below the expectations you can parametrize its production without the needs of a currency valuing it to know what it should be its production value in a sort of numerical context and thus backing it by some objective qualification .