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🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | So Stafford Beer has come up with this system. |
0:03.2 | He's been advising companies as a consultant. |
0:04.9 | He's making me pretty good living. |
0:06.0 | And then one, he gets a call from this from this, this Salvadoran dude. |
0:10.1 | He was like, hey, do you want to come design our entire goddamn economy? |
0:16.8 | And how does they end? |
0:18.6 | I'd like to design my economy after. |
0:21.7 | Well, how did, how did I end? I'd like to design my economy after. Well, how did, how did Iyndi even know to look this guy up? |
0:25.5 | Was he was notorious? |
0:27.5 | Just, you know, I've never seen an actual explanation of how in the world Iynde came across this stuff. |
0:34.0 | I don't know if it was one of his advisors had read about it or maybe Ianda |
0:37.9 | himself had been reading about it. I think he was a bit of a polymath and we were talking about |
0:42.8 | poly earlier. But I could totally believe that. Yeah, he was just into a bunch of different stuff and |
0:47.8 | was a really bright guy. I could totally believe that. Um, because the way that Stafford Beer talks about his conversations with Aende really indicates that Stafford Beer has like to this day and or not to I guess Stepard Beer died a while back, but to his dying day had an enormous admiration for Aende. |
1:05.3 | And of course like anyone would given that proposition, he's like, hell yeah, I'm going to yeah, absolutely. |
1:10.0 | And hops on the next |
1:11.2 | plane to, to, to, to Santiago. So he gets there and he's talking to Aende and he's explaining |
1:20.6 | this entire system. And this is just like one of one of the cooler moments in like this whole |
1:24.3 | story of socialist economic planning decentralized. |
1:30.2 | He's talking about this system five, this identity system. |
1:33.2 | And Iende cuts him off before he can start describing it. And he goes, ah, yes, the people. |
1:36.1 | And like, it's just like immediately just pulls this like really awesome fucking moment of like, |
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