Comment by eru
There's plenty of other companies in Taiwan already today, and that's without the counterfactual of leaving more money in people's hands.
I can't predict specifically what other things would have happened. If people could do these kinds of predictions well, maybe central planning would actually work?
You are saying planning never works without even the ability to point to any specific cases. Why do you swallow your own ideology so uncritically?
Does Soviet-style central planning work? It didn't seem to work well in the few societies that really tried it.
Dos all planning fail? Seems unlikely, given the amount of fairly centralized planning that went on (and still goes on today) in East Asian countries, countries that are the rare "success stories" of developmental economics.
In fact the original East Asian success story was Meiji-era Japan, basically the only society outside of the West that managed to industrialize itself during the 19th century. And if one sits down to read a history book one quickly realizes that what the Meiji government did was highly top-down and planned with the explicit goal to catch up to the European colonial powers. It did not resemble classical laissez-faire economics.