The weakness of the Soviet economic model was the small internal market that suffered from a lack of diversity in consumer goods and product diversification as well as a lack of openness to foreign imports as it relied on exports of raw materials or its wealthy gas reserves. You had a stoicism and a utilitarian consumer buying no name bread and no name shoes but he did have a basic income while he did not shop very often as his basic income was designed for the basic needs in his Government funded apartment with universal health care and free dental. Now they have a diversity of goods from all over the world with Doritos and Lays and an elevated basic income although it is within the same understanding of the automated economy's end game where if you did not have a basic income, you would have a disappearing population all over America except for Manhattan that will be a walled city and no one to defend the coast in California or the border in Wyoming. Russia's market is now strong and vibrant internally with a diverse supply of goods and lots of consumerism where in the absence of this consumerism, America was critical in demanding Russia join the free market world. America's internal market is now weak simply because it does not have a consistent basic income as it seems to believe the Book of Eli with a walled New York excluding a dying and dead America must take precedence over its economists in Chicago and elsewhere, Milton Friedman, Mcnamara,Alan Greenspan, who prescribed a higher sales tax rate with basic income a very long time ago and that are needed in the instance due to the human attrition caused by automation to ensure Canada, America and it's allies would have a viable war ready population and competitive economic viability against Russia. An Arms race is futile when you have no population to defend.

The weakness of the Soviet economic model was the small internal market that suffered from a lack of diversity in  consumer goods and product diversification as well as a lack of openness to foreign imports as it relied on exports of raw materials or its wealthy gas reserves.  You had a stoicism and a utilitarian consumer buying no name bread and no name shoes but he did have a basic income while he did not shop very often as his basic income was designed for the basic needs in his Government funded apartment with universal health care and free dental. Now they have a diversity of goods from all over the world with Doritos and Lays and an elevated  basic income although it is within the same understanding of the automated economy's end game where if you did not have a basic income, you would have a disappearing population all over America except for Manhattan that will be a walled city and no one to defend the coast in California or the border in Wyoming. Russia's market is now strong and vibrant internally with a diverse supply of goods and lots of consumerism where in the absence of this consumerism, America was critical in demanding Russia join the free market world. America's internal market is now weak simply because it does not have a consistent basic income as it seems to believe the Book of Eli with a walled New York excluding a dying and dead America must take precedence over its economists in Chicago and elsewhere, Milton Friedman, Mcnamara,Alan Greenspan, who prescribed a higher sales tax rate with basic income a very long time ago and that are needed in the instance  due to the human attrition caused by automation to ensure Canada, America and it's allies  would have a viable war ready population and  competitive economic viability against Russia. An Arms race is futile when you have no population to defend.