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You can see from this chart that the entire economic program of which Cybersyn was a part was more akin to sabotage than anything helpful: https://upload.wikime
by eigenvalue 6y ago
You can see from this chart that the entire economic program of which Cybersyn was a part was more akin to sabotage than anything helpful: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Chile-the-real-wage-1967-1977_with_lines.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Chile-th...
- ceejayoz 6y agoSabotage is probably the correct term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Chile#Allende_presidency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_...
- p_l 6y agoIt was used to successfully navigate strikes, and the general idea was more decentralized than typical system these days.
- X6S1x6Okd1st 6y agoNixon also asked the CIA to "make the economy scream". It's really unfortunate that most experiment in central planning were also complicated by the world's super power at the time trying to ensure that the experiment failed. Not to mention that their key export (copper) price crashed during those years. Not to say that there wouldn't have been bad economic outcomes here otherwise, but it's clear that they were going up against the CIA.