Chia pools is the bad idea to my mind.There were collective farms in the USSR which were inefficient.
The same is with chia.Chia is a lottery in which only a few will win.
There are very few similarities between the mandatory state ownership of everything and voluntary collectives.
If you’ve ever mined any other crypto - pools end up being the only way to be involved without massive investment, and the Chia pooling protocol (when it arrives) looks to be more transparent than the distribution schemes of pools in most other cryptos.
That last point doesn’t apply to current unofficial pools - although they’re still voluntary collectives, they are only as transparent as they wish to be.
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