Replace "socialist" with "large company". The companies gather data, establish metrics, and manage to those numbers, and often bad things result. Ever been in a company where some internal support function goes to hell because its top manager's bonus depends on a metric, and they can improve that metric by refusing to support the users (find excuses to close IT support calls without fixing the issue, etc).
Yes. But then some would say the company fail because it "misused data", but it was not the real cause of the company's failure. Any project involves using data could blame the failure on "misused data" which is an useless conclusion.
