Reply #11: It's an oligopoly, a few large companies and more accurately the people own them control us.

[originalpckelly]

I can prove that this is a planned economy, and I can prove that it's little better than the Soviet Union.

Inside a large corporation, the employees do not sell their services to each other, and for the swath of the economy a corporation takes up, it is for all intents and purposes a planned economy.

And like the Soviet planned economy, it serves a powerful oligarchy. And just like their planned economy, it is inherently inefficient and it is bringing itself down.