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In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best-paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all, in return for a few hours daily toil? - Peter Kropotkin (1892)
You are literally describing capitalism, and why it's fucking us all over. You are agreeing with the original quote.
The people who build those machines have zero ownership or control of them. Yeah, no shit that's the problem.
How does one expect to build a tractor without materials? Like a mine to get iron ore from the ground, foundries to smelt it, machine shops to craft parts, rubber or oil processing to make tires, etc.? Supply chains under a command economy have been much worse slavery just as much as you would say they are when people are paid for their labor.
Let's look at examples. Albania's socialism was incredibly closed off, and the Hoxha regime a full on analogue surveillance state because they didn't trust their neighbors because they weren't socialist enough. They bought tractors from other socialist countries for decades (socialists doing capitalism with the government, so it doesn't count), until in 1978 they finally just made a factory to copy the Chinese tractors they were buying because of their paranoia about other socialist countries trying to infiltrate them.
Of course I'm describing capitalism, because I'm telling you that you genuinely can't expect some noble socialist utopia to actually get you tractors without conscripting people who don't want to build tractors into receiving rations - or money, take your pick - to work in a factory.
So supply chain economics don't work without capitalism? Is that the claim?