The attained plan manifests actors' preferences proportionately as they are impacted. More, each actor benefits only insofar as do all others. That is, my income depends directly on the socially average income and my job comfort depends on the quality of the socially average job complex. Solidarity is therefore enhanced by participatory planning because our interests are entwined and our daily economic calculations occur in light of one another's situations. Diversity is welcome to participatory for the benefits that accrue from many options and checks and balances.
Equity is guaranteed by the remunerative norm.
And self-management is intrinsic to the the allocation system's foundational logic and its operation, fostered by its every feature. Prices are not binding at each stage, but are instead flexible in that they may change in a future round of planning, but also in that qualitative information provides important additional guidance that can lead people to act contrary to what quantitative prices indicate. More, the indicative prices up to and including the final rates of exchange, do not stem from competition or authoritarian determinations, but from social consultation and compromise. The appended qualitative information comes directly from concerned parties and enters the process to help keep the quantitative indicators as accurate as possible, as well as to develop workers' and consumers' sensitivity to fellow workers' and consumers' situations and everyone's understanding of the intricate tapestry of human relations that determines what we can and cannot consume or produce. In the next commentary in this series we will address short-term program for attaining participatory planning.