Ok yeah that's actually a problem. Overcapacity is waste. Wasted resources, wasted labor to build capacity and to man it (often higher minimum capacity as well).
Socialist systems need the capacity to remove scarcity and ro fulfill needs but they also need efficiency as the proletariat are owed the benefits of efficiency. That efficiency can be everything from more money to shorter hours to a larger coffer upon which the company sits (which means more stability
Depends on the sector. Overcapacity for ammo for the next war is not a waste for example, you never know how long it will last.
You absolutely know how long it can be expected to last. Explosives expire, at which point they cannot be reliably trusted to explode when they are supposed to or to not explode when they aren't supposed to
Now, if you want to keep a warehouse of kalishnakovs in every city just in case, those won't go bad assuming right conditions and that theyre made of durable materials (no plastic). But they may be outdated by the time they're needed.
Keeping overcapacity for weapons of war is a balancing act. You don't want to be caught with your pants down, but you also dont want to be sending boats full of tanks that nobody wants to every conflict lest you have to shut the plant down.
China will send expired ammo to africa I guess. Pakistan and Arabs, like Algeria, will buy regardless of quality, as the cold war showed. Egypt bought into the soviet arms and lost to Israel because of it. Iraq lost to the US because of outdated Soviet tanks. And I think history will repeat itself.
China polysilicon firms plan $7 billion fund to shut a third of industry capacity
Chinese producers of polysilicon, a building block for solar panels, are in talks to create a 50 billion yuan ($7 billion) fund to acquire and shut down roughly a third of production capacity and restructure part of the loss-making sector, GCL Technology Holdings said.
A first step maybe? It's too little, and very late. Seems China's Leninist changes only if they run out of money. What a difference to the neo-liberal stance (s/)
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