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When you're trying to compete with capitalist nations that will stoop far lower than you to outproduce and then wipe you off the map, you can't deny yourself any advantage. This 0th stage of socialism/state capitalism/central planning making an attempt to do what it needs to do to survive.
Is it good? No, it's terrible. Will it work? Maybe, maybe not, but I see why they have to try something. Is it justified? If it works to outproduce and then defeat the imperial core, yes.
Compete in what? Lowest labor compensation? usa growth is fairly ephemeral 1.5 % if one were to remove immigration influence, with some indeterminable amount of that is financialization of human relations (any time you close kindergarten and hire someone to watch a child/instead of elderly grandma you increase gdp after all).
They outproduce them already, they need to show human face instead of race to the bottom with porky, porky has colonies, you can't outcompete in that space.
And i described my ideal solution tbh: give workers a collective choice - bonuses include - (a) not a problem for government anymore (b) manufacturing consent logic - let people have lively debate about some issues not ultimately important to the state (c) same commie logic - let people decide what they want in spheres that can be offloaded from the state