>>4237206>What's considered truly necessary isn't a static variableIt is a relative variable, wether it changes or remains the same varies solely on who you are asking, for the purposes of corporatism the state is what decides what is truly necessary as it is the highest authority in the economic field, as to WHAT the state feels is necessary obviously varies, but if we are talking about fascist corporatism specifically - then it is whatever benefits the nation the most.
>Firm choices in market economyOptions 1 and 2 are considerably riskier than option 3, especially to a firm already suffering from labour shortages, the profit motive moves in the path of least resistance.
>The corporates have no incentive for innovationThis is hardly the case, the corporates may not be led into innovation by market competition but for a similar reason, the competition of nations, which, if anything, brings about innovation far quicker and with much more pressure, it is simply taking the inherent Darwinian logic of progress and applying it in a larger scale, such technological advancements quickly become downstream into civilian technology, this is actually a very common origin for many inventions in history.
>Real wages either stagnated or fellStagnation is a rather erroneous use here, the wages were stabilized, you must understand that before Nazi Germany it was the Weimar Republic, hyperinflation AND the great depression made worker wages during that period extremely inconsistent - if anything, it is a miracle that Nazi Germany was able to stabilize the worker wages and at least keep them consistent throughout it's existence, Fascist Italy exemplified best that corporatism is most effective under the pressure of war, everything economically leading up to WW2 in economics was, simply put, preparation for it, such as moving away from agriculture to industrialization.
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