> in favor of central planning
That's precisely the attitude what I'm talking about all the time!
If my water mains is frozen I will just go to a neighbour with a crate of beer and agree on a temporary hose to my house, because it's *pragmatic.*
If you* instead talk about "central planning" and your whole family suffers without water, then you're just like the Mosquito Coast (1986) guy, dogmatic and trying to prove a point, nothing else.
* "you" used figuratively