The market IS very good at that, what it's not good at is handling externalities for citizens of a country that arise from taking the most efficient market path.

Cool theory. But there are confounding factors: H1B employees get exploited like a species of indentured servants. Lazy managers like that they are compliant and happy to implement stupid ideas.

> we don't need a central planning committee

Ironic phrasing, as in my experience the steelman argument in favor of these companies is "The customer is really bad at thinking through their own requirements."

Is it though? Markets may be perfect, but humans are not. There’s plenty of laziness, incompetence and corruption, even in capitalism.

I guess it’s the least worst option we’ve found. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t need any guardrails at all though.

I agree that we don’t need a central planning committee.

But if you’ve ever worked with the public, you know there is almost no cultural onus on nontechnical people to properly hire or contract technical people for technical tasks.

So…no: The market isn’t very good at this - yet.

> we don't need a central planning committee.

That is an ideological creed, not a fact. It might be true, but you're just smuggling in your priors with no evidence.