Quite the opposite: soviet bureaucracy didn't want to transform anything, they were more concerned with maintaining the status quo for as long as they could. This is why the system turned out to be too rigid to withstand the pressures of the modern world.
On the other hand, think about how much the planned economy would benefit from the wide-spread automation and access to modern computing and communications.
Incidentally, does not look like bullshit jobs were specific to the USSR, they are indeed everywhere.
For more than 10 years thousands of party members from soviet republic of Uzbekistan were sending fake data to Moscow (this included corruption on many levels across the country) about production of cotton. Everyone was involved, from top to bottom, I don't see how creation of any network would help with that. In fact programmers across USSR were putting tools into the software for state companies to produce "fixed" results for central planning committee. And in central planning committee they were also corrupt :) (my relative worked there in 80s and I know how it was organized on basic level).
I recommend reading about the theory of the firm to understand why they emerge and what makes them efficient.
By the fall of the SSSR the black market of illegally imported goods constituted a huge chunk of the soviet economy.
Also I find intriguing how I got downvoted just by questioning. Makes you wonder how wisely those mod powers are being used.
By the fall of USSR, big chunks of black market were becoming legal :) Black market was a massive portion of economy throughout USSR existence though.
Some people still buy old good CCCP propaganda. And even questioning fairy tale propaganda is bad for those people.
you would need an excessive abundance to accommodate the large numbers of people who do not believe they must contribute. I am not saying they won't work and produce wealth, those that do will only do so for themselves
Snark tangent aside, the issue with the USSR wasn't so much the bullshit jobs as the squandering of the labor of those performing actually important jobs via lack of support. They took labor for granted as a free input and neglected efficiency, exactly like slave owners and feudal lords they accused capitalists of being.
Apartments queues were much shorter in small purpose-built industrial towns in the middle of nowhere
Dangerous jobs in bumfucknowhere (far north etc) were paid $$$$$
One couldn't be a writer or artist without attending university. And spots at university were limited. State needs X writers or artists in 5 years so that's how many spots are available this year. On top of that, being jobless was a crime. So you couldn't just pursue artsy stuff and leech off society either.
Same for the rest of the labour market. Central planning wants to kickstart XYZ factory in 5 years? Suddenly related universities get spots in XYZ next fall. You want to do ABC instead? Tough luck. Either study XYZ or do some unskilled job for years till few spots in ABC become available.