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Define "coordination, in a socialist context.
Coordination means to coordinate: to order, to negotiate, to figure out how to accomplish a common task. Capitalists coordinate production and distribution and so on to maximize profits. Workers would coordinate the same things to meet their needs and wants.
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Why, in socialist context, is reduction of waste an incentive to reduce production in a case of overproduction.
Because if you are producing to satisfy needs rather than maximize profits, then extra labor means you are making yourself do busy work. Why don't most people wash their car the day after washing it the first time if they kept it inside in-between? Did the profit motive tell them not to do that? No, because it would be waste.
Capitalism overproduces because you can make money in a bubble and if you don't you will be pushed out of the market. So people invest right up until a crash, then they sit on money... supply and demand in the absolute sense haven't changed - only supply and demand in relation to what is a profitable investment at a given time.
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How does the socialist community determine that resources are wasted versus them being used in a proper way.
Capitalist "efficiency" again just means maximizing profits. How efficient is it it in the abstract for Apple to put out new formats all the time and make old tech obsolete? It's not efficient at all except for trying to capture a chunk of the market and to create planned obsolescence.
So again, use-value efficiency is just different: did we accomplish meeting our needs and wants without wasting time and energy and materials. This is speculation, but I think people would have an interest in maximizing the quality and value of their labor. They wouldn't want to do something half-assed and cheap if they have the option of spending a similar amount of labor and materials (or even slightly more) on something that will last a long time and hold up. They would also want quality when materially possible since the line between consumer and producer would be blurred.
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How do the computer workers determine that your priority in replacing an aging computer is greater than your neighbors who might have the same need?
Again, people would estimate what they think demand will be. If actual demand exceeds this, then just like in Capitalism where you have to wait a month for the new iPad because they didn't make enough, some people may have to be put on a waiting list if the stocks are low. If there is a more objective shortage, like in raw materials or something, then workers will have to prioritize and figure out if they should invest more time and resources into an alternative way of producing or any number of other options.