This is reminiscent of the Trolley Problem. Those pulling the levers in the Trolley Problem have no idea what happens if they don't sacrifice certain people, they are making assumptions from poor data, as all central planners do. They are driven by hubris and their motivations can easily be ideologically driven.
Central planning is the absolutely most harmful scenario, as the past 3 years have shown. Add 70 years of communism to our insight into how central planning works.