This is where we're at huh?
A) The government building an entire logistical supply and warehousing chain across the country for groceries to support food welfare. Cold food, meat, spoilage & waste, a bunch of federal jobs.
or
B) The government gives citizens a bit of money, which they then spend at existing warehouses (with existing logistical supply chains) to buy food. Some existing warehouses will accumulate larger shares of this money, as it has more customers.
The existing warehouses in example B are called grocery stores, like Walmart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQOXdtPBGXI
Seems like the it IS cheaper for the government to do it, odd how much better prices can be when you don't have to worry about making sure the fat cats stay fat.
edit: or maybe the communities served by walmart should build their own rain ponchos and bananas locally.
is the point of this conversation just to proclaim you don't like some guys? what is your claim here? what action do you desire the collective to take? what is the rule that society should follow?
why do you expect that rule to lead to a more prosperous, thriving society?
It is dismaying to find out how many American academicians take Marxism seriously - unless they stem from countries like Cuba that had the misfortune to actually let Marxist ideas rule them. It is mental fentanyl for certain kind of collectivist mind.
Give me Hayek and Buckley instead.
In practice? For example, nationalization of businesses and collectivization in rural areas, including suppression of "kulaks".
Binary thinking is analogous to quantizing an LLM to 2 bits (worse, actually). You're not going to get good results.