ackoff system

one of the challenges of exploring systems theory is you never know what you still most fail to understand until you bump into it

after 9/11 i spent a lot of time listening to people who at least try to see the world in system terms not just numerical extraction-one of the great missing pieces for my mind at that time was this paper of ackoff reproduced below

of course what it may spring in your mind will be different than what it did to me

it reminded me of my graduate and post graduate work in maths - as hunting out systems- i was but a small player compared with guys like steven hawkins whose supercharged wheelchair was quite a liability in the narrow corridors of cambridge department of applied maths and theoretical physics 1972 but i became fascinated by what tv was doing to the data that all our lives are produced around and whether computers would make human mediation better or worse- systems compound trajectories to one of 2 oposite ends not some halway space between better or worse


 ackoff's paper was also a timely reminder to me of einstein bon mots- whenever mans science says there is no more space to innovate men mean they cannot understand more until they go to a more micro level of mapping dynamic interactions- macroeconomists and their associated ruling professions hate eistein when you explain how little they understand about exponential risks

and i had also be re-reading my grandfathers 25 years of shared history with mahatma gandhi up to india's independence and come across einstein correspondence with gandhi- lasting will only be sustainable leaders like mahatma and his attempts to dramatise truth without anger, however urgent and desperate the leadership crisis is to being

systems are also impacted by a curious property of holonic which bteere engineers and architects and some artists understand - by definition a system is both inside bigger systems and contains smaller systems- i have always thought that those whose schooling in maths stopped before calculus and integration are being blocked from seeing all the world has to offer- i now realise in bush's response to the heinous 9/11 much of washington dc looks as if its rush to administrate over people is deprived of calculus and other system mapping views - i hope americans will let youth explore ways out of dc's blindness

a related idea is chaos theory- i have never found the metaphor that a butterfly flapping its wings in the amazon can impact the world's supreme leader- i suggest a more direct exemplar is one mans sneeze somewhere towards the end of 2019 that has become one of nature's final examination questions of every civilisation around the world of the 2020s
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May 26, 2004 1
TRANSFORMING THE SYSTEMS MOVEMENT
Russell L. Ackoff
The situation the world is in is a mess. This hardly requires documentation; it's
obvious. Furthermore, as Leslie Gelb observed (1991), the prospects for
improvement are not promising:
...the emerging world requires a new foreign policy agenda, and fresh
faces to execute that agenda. The trouble is, the same old "experts" are
still running foreign policy and most of them only dimly understand the
world they preside over. Indeed, few people today, in or out of
Government, have the background and skills to grasp, let alone direct, the
new agenda. ( p. 50)

Reform will not do it; transformations are required, two kinds. First a
transformation of the way nations and international institutions handle global
affairs and second, a transformation in the way systems thinkers collectively
conduct the systems movement. The second must come first if we hope to have
any effect on the global mess.

Reformations and transformations are not the same thing. Reformations are
concerned with changing the means systems employ to pursue their objectives.
Transformations involve changes in the objectives they pursue. Peter Drucker put
this distinction dramatically when he said there is a difference between doing
things right (the intent of reformations) and doing the right thing (the intent of
transformations).

The righter we do the wrong thing, the wronger we become. When we make a
mistake doing the wrong thing and correct it, we become wronger. When we
make a mistake doing the right thing and correct it, we become righter.
Therefore, it is better to do the right thing wrong than the wrong thing right. This
is very significant because almost every problem confronting our society is a
result of the fact that our public policy makers are doing the wrong things and are
trying to do them righter. Consider a few examples.

The United States has a higher percentage of its population in prison than any
other country, and simultaneously has the highest crime rate. We have more
people in prison than are attending college and universities, and it cost more per
year to incarcerate them than to educate them. Something is fundamentally
wrong.

Most who are imprisoned are subsequently released. As criminologists have
shown those released have a higher probability of committing a crime when they
come out than when they went in, and it is likely to be a more serious crime.
Prison is a school for learning criminality, not a correctional institution.

In quality the health care system of the United States is ranked 37th by the World
Health Organization. We are the only developed country without universal
coverage; about 42 million people in our country have no health care assured.
Moreover, study after study has shown that much of the need for the care that is
provided is created by the care that is given; excess surgery, incorrect diagnoses,
wrong drugs prescribed or administered, unnecessary tests. The fact is that the
so-called health care system can survive only as long as there are people who
are sick or disabled. Therefore, whatever the intent of its servers, the system can
only assure its survival by creating and preserving illness and disability. We have
a self-maintaining sickness- and disability-care system, not a health care system.

The objectives that must be changed in transformations are not usually those that
are proclaimed; rather they are the one actually pursued. For example, most
corporation proclaim maximization of shareholder value as their primary objective.
Any objective observer of corporate behavior knows that this is an illusion. As a
study conducted a while back at GE showed, the principal objective of
corporations is to maximize the security, standard of living, and quality of life of
those making the decisions. Recent disclosures at Enron and WorldCom, among
others, made this abundantly clear.

A similar discrepancy between objective proclaimed and objective practiced can
be observed in most organizations. For example, one could mistakenly believe
that the principal objective of universities is to educate students. What a myth!
The principal objective of a university is to provide job security and increase the
standard of living and quality of life of those members of the faculty and
administration who make the critical decisions. Teaching is a price faculty
members must pay to share in the benefits provided. Like any price, they try to
minimize it. Note that the more senior and politically powerful teaching members
of the faculty are, the less teaching they do.

Transformations not only require recognition of the difference between what is
practiced and what is preached — a transformation called for years ago by
Donald Schon (1971) — it also requires a transformation in the way we think.
Einstein put it powerfully and succinctly:
Without changing our patterns of thought we will not be able to solve the
problems we created with our current patterns of thought.

I believe the pattern of thought that is required is systemic. It is difficult if at all
possible to reduce the meaning of "systemic thinking" to a brief definition.
Nevertheless, I try.

Systemic thinking is holistic versus reductionistic thinking, synthetic versus
analytic. Reductionistic and analytic thinking derives properties of wholes from
the properties of their parts. Holistic and synthetic thinking derive properties of
parts from properties of the whole that contains them. The creation of the
department of Homeland Security is a prime example of reductionistic and
analytical thinking; the whole formed by the aggregation of existing parts. In
contrast, when an architect designs a house he first sketches the house as a
whole and then puts rooms into it. The principal criterion he employs in
evaluating a room is what effect it has on the whole. He is even willing to make a
room worse if doing so will make the house better.

In general, those who make public policy and engage in public decision making do
not understand that improvement in the performance of parts of a system taken
separately may not, and usually does not, improve performance of the system as
a whole. In fact, it may make system performance worse or even destroy it.
We have not effectively communicated such thoughts to public policy and
decision makers. What should we be communicating to them that would, if
heeded, transform our global society into one that is just and equitable, one that
would reduce if not eliminate the maldistribution of wealth, quality of life, and
opportunity? In other words: what should we communicate and be doing that
could promote development of the world and its parts by changing the way public
policies and decisions are made?

Up to now, those of us in systems have had little or no effect on the global mess.
Nevertheless, I believe there is a role that we could play in the dissolution of this
mess. What and how might we contribute to its dissolution?

I think we can contribute by making public policy and decision makers aware of
ideas and concepts that would enable them to think more creatively and
effectively about the mess the world is in. Here I discuss only a few systemic
ideas and processes that I wish they understood. There are many others but I
would settle for their grasping this much.

The ideas and concepts I identify here are familiar to most systems thinkers even
if they would express hem differently. I include them here not to inform them but
to call their attention to aspects of systems thinking that I believe they should
communicate to public policy and decision makers.

DEVELOPMENT VERSUS GROWTH
I hope we can help public policy and decision makers realize that development
and growth are not the same thing. Neither presupposes the other. Rubbish
heaps grow but do not develop. Einstein continued to develop long after he
stopped growing. Some nations grow larger without developing. and others
develop without growing.

Growth is an increase in size or number. Development is an increase in
competence, the ability to satisfy ones needs and desires and those of others.
Growth is a matter of earning; development is a matter of learning. Standard of
living is an index of national growth; quality of life is an index of its development.
Development is not a matter of how much one has but how much one can do with
whatever one has. This is why Robinson Crusoe is a better model of
development than J. Pierpont Morgan.

The quality of life that an individual or group can achieve obviously depends on
both their competence and their wealth. Of two societies with the same level of
competence the one with the most wealth can achieve the higher quality of life.
But of two societies with the same resources, the one with the greater
competence can achieve a higher quality of life.

Because development is a matter of learning, one cannot do it for another. The
only kind of development possible is self-development. However, one can
facilitate the development of another by encouraging and supporting their
learning. Nations must stop acting as though they can solve other nations'
problems. Nations, like individuals, learn less from the successes of others than
from their own mistakes.

One never learns from doing things right because, obviously, one already knows
how to do it. What one derives from doing something right is confirmation of what
one already knows. This has value, but it is not learning. One can only learn
from mistakes, by identifying and correcting them. But all through school and in
most places of employment we are taught that making mistakes is a bad thing.
Therefore, we try to hide or deny those we make. To the extent we succeed, we
preclude learning

Furthermore, there are two types of mistakes: errors of commission, doing
something we should not have done; and errors of omission, not doing something
we should have done. Examination of the failures or crises that organizations and
institutions have experienced reveals that errors of omission are the more serious.
For example, In the latter part of the last century IBM got into serious trouble
because it failed to pay attention to the development of small computers, and
Kodak got into its current trouble for failing to focus on the development of digital
photography until others had successfully staked a claim to it.

Our public and private accounting systems record only the less important type of
mistake, errors of commission. Therefore, for executives who want to maximize
their job security in a public or private organization that deprecates mistakes and
ignores errors of omission, the best strategy is to do nothing or as little as
possible. This is the root of the conservatism that permeates the world today.
This nation, I believe, has never had an administration as reluctant to
acknowledge its errors as the one currently in office. Because of this it has
precluded the possibility of its learning.

We need to learn a great deal more about learning. Our schools at all levels are
devoted more to teaching than to learning. For example, it is apparent to anyone
who has taught others that the teacher learns more than the students do.
Teaching is a much better way to learn than being taught. Schools are upside
down. Students ought to be teaching and faculty members should be learning
how to help others learn and how to motivate them to do so.

A student once stopped me in the hall and asked, "Professor, when did you teach
your first class?" That was easy: I answered, "September of 1941." "Wow!" he
said, "You have been teaching for a very long time." I agreed. Then he asked,
"When was the last time you taught a course in a subject that existed when you
were a student?" This question required some thought but finally I got it. and
answered, "September of 1951." He said, "Do mean to say that everything you
have taught for about fifty years you had to learn without having it taught to you?"
I said, "Yes." "Wow,” he said again. "Your must be a pretty good learner." I
modestly agreed. He continued, "What a pity you are not that good a teacher."
He had it right: faculty members know how to learn better than they know how to
teach. Therefore, they should be acting as resources to students who are either
engaged in teaching others, or learning on their own or with others cooperatively.

One of the great gifts I received from West Churchman, whose life we will
remember and celebrate tonight, is that he let me go through graduate school
teaching most of the courses I needed to take for graduation.
Democracy has to be learned. It cannot be imposed on others. It must be
learned by experiencing it. It does not come to us naturally. All of us are brought
up by adults who, even in permissive families, are authorities who control us or
set limits within which we have freedom. In effect, we are raised in autocratic
structures however benevolent they may be. Therefore, in a sense autocracy is
more natural than democracy.

I was once involved in a project in Mexico which taught me how democracy could
be learned. A group of us from several Mexican universities and a government
agency were able to make available to a very remote Indian village in the Sierra
Madras Mountains a substantial sum of money the village could use for its
development. It alone had to make the decisions as to how to use the money but
it had to make these decisions democratically. The only power the team of which
I was a part had was to veto any decisions not made democratically and which did
not involve development. Town meetings were initiated fin the square in the
center of the village, and after a series of tries the village members learned how to
make decisions democratically. They also learned and difference between
development and welfare.

HOW DO WE HAVE TO CHANGE OURSELVES?
... man has been able to grow enthusiastic over his vision of ...
unconvincing enterprises. He has pit himself to work for the sake of an
idea, seeking by magnificent exertions to arrive at the incredible. And in
the end, he has arrived there. Beyond all doubt it is one of the vital
sources of man's power, to be thus able to kindle enthusiasm from the
mere glimmer of something improbable, difficult, remote. (1966,p.1)
Now, what might the systems community do about the deficiencies I have
discussed? Clearly we must learn how through communication to make public
policy and decision makers aware of these deficiencies and what to do about
them. We are not doing so now. Most of our communication is addressed to
each other, not to public policy and decision makers. Our communication is
based on our needs not those of others. With the intent of changing this I have
several proposals.

First, our principal professional organization, the International Federation for
Systems Research, should publish a journal addressed to public policy and
decision makers who can affect the global mess. Through expository articles and
case studies the journal should help them come to understand systems thinking
and its use in their work. It should be distributed to them at no cost. The
Federation should cover the cost, if necessary by voluntary contributions of its
members.

The Journal, possibly called Systems Thinking in Public Affairs, should be
supplemented by at least one conference per year held at a site at which a major
multigovernmental institution is located. Public policy and decision makers should
be invited mostly to discuss their problems and listen to unconventional systemic
approaches to them.

In addition, those of us who think of ourselves as system thinkers should
contribute to those publications that are read by those in public life whom we want
to affect. We should also try to make presentations at conferences they attend.
Our professional societies should make it their responsibility to facilitate such
participation by informing us of relevant opportunities and, where possible, by
arranging jointly sponsored meetings.
Finally, we should engage in assisting development efforts of less developed
countries, regions, communities, and neighborhoods. This does not mean
imposing our solutions on them but assisting them in implementing their proposed
solutions to their problems, even if they are wrong. They can develop more by
making their own mistakes than by imitating our successes.
Systems thinking produces radical and potentially revolutionary visions of public
institutions. Nothing short of such visions can transform the state of world affairs.
I believe we have an obligation to the global society of which we are a part to
make every possible effort to bring about a radical transformation of that society
into one in which our children do not have to contend with the mess we have
created and are exacerbating.
May 26, 2004 11
_____________________________________________________________* •
For an effort to redesign our society and its major institutions, see
Redesign Society by Russell L. Ackoff and Sheldon Rovin, Stanford University
Press, Stanford, California, 2003.
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REFERENCES
Gelb, Leslie H., "Fresh Faces" in The New York Times, December 8, 1991,pp. 50-
551.
Ortega y Gasset, José, Mission of the University, Norton, New York, 1966.
Schon, Donald A., Beyond the Stable State, Random House, New York, 1971.

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roosevelt 1941

lso, in memorable phrases, he envisioned a better future, founded upon four freedoms: the "four essential human freedoms," some traditional and some new ones. The four freedoms he outlined were freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

President Franklin Roosevelt's Annual Message (Four ... january 1941

If the Congress maintains these principles, the voters, putting patriotism ahead of pocketbooks, will give you their applause.

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.

That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

To that new order we oppose the greater conception--the moral order. A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign revolutions alike without fear.

Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change -- in a perpetual peaceful revolution -- a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions--without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society.

This nation has placed its destiny in the hands and heads and hearts of its millions of free men and women; and its faith in freedom under the guidance of God. Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.

Transcription courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

gordon moore

its 1965 again: little more than 200 years after alumni of adam smith and james watt started up the era of man and machines out of glasgow university , gordon moore and stanford alumni committed to delivering 100 times more computation tech every decade- by the 2020s thats a trillion times moore than needed to code moon landing

moore's team were luckily located close to stanford uni had been founded when the gov of california's 15 year old son died of typhoid in greece- the stanford family started up the vision of university system loving every child of california as much as their son

there could be a lot more to love or hate with a trillion times moore tech- by 1972 anywhere that linkedin to gordon moore called themselves silicon valley- the race was on to humanse ai before you could buy a 5 dollar chip with more computing brain power than a human and the worldwide connectivity of 5g satellite coms

it sure was a brave new world- but would the 0g 1g 2g 3g 4g 5g countdown spin the best of tines or the worst for every life on planet earth

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pony ma

pony ma founder of tencent - probably the most remarkable worldwide company - owner of over 50 unicorns -head quarters shenzen now 15 minute rail ride from hongkong but in process of acquiring company in the middle of beijing's student and entrepreneurial zone

more on tencent here

eric yuan

it is quite possible that more peoples livelihood economies in 2020 depend on eric yuan than anyone else- i welcome your alternative nominations though equally the tools we most need to survive from 2020 are not really about one person they are about what empowers life critical actions by and for all of us wherever we deliver community/last mile service

Eric S. Yuan

CEO & Founder, Zoom

Eric S. Yuan. Mr. Yuan is the founder of our company and has served as the Chairman of our board directors, President and Chief Executive Officer since June 2011. From May 2007 to June 2011, Mr. Yuan served as Corporate Vice President of Engineering at Cisco Systems, Inc., a multinational technology company. Mr. Yuan served in various roles, most recently as Vice President of Engineering, at WebEx Communications, Inc., an internet company, from August 1997 until its acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. in May 2007. Mr. Yuan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Math from Shandong University of Science & Technology and a Master’s degree in engineering from China University of Mining & Technology

you might say that while personal computers connected more peoples worldwide than ever before email -eg america online steve case and web browsing -berners lee- offered the greatest freedom to communicate
 - text and skype initially empowered the most life matter (humanly loving) connections worldwide but then tools valued by the two-third majority of humans in the east:wechat copied by whatsapp, and zoom copied by teams became what peoples relied on most

where would the vast majority of students , teachers and tele-workers be without zoom from virus spring 2020- my father hosted some of the earliest debates on futurising  the purpose of telecommuting in the 1960s- before he died in 2010 he identified his all time greatest hero of human sustainability as coalitions of what has become the largest societal business economy - gravitated by sir fazle abed

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more on entering the age of data clouds from 2010 -nb more data on tracing individual human interactions has been collected from birth of mobile devices than ever before becuase these devices were locationally tracked by satellite gps- in actuality the mobile phones is the first of an unknowable number of devices -now called the internet of things- agriculture uses eg unmanned drones; cties traffic and safety services depend not just on smart cameras but poentially robotics imitating any of humans 5 senses but able to do far more analysis in a few seconds than a human brain can do in a lifetime- the way we peoples humannise aridficial intelligence is to map what data they use transparently- america who had up to ten years lead on this at year 2000 has seenits public servants completely fail to keep up with this transformational diagnosis- governments needed enginners not lawyers and numbers professions making rules that have resulted in the biggest western organisations also being trhe west's and in somecases the world's least sustainable systems ever

personal devices moved on to text and then smart mobiles-while apple invented the first proprietary smart phone network, it was the open source kernel of torvaulds that google turned into android and which south korean samsung and then chinese companies made economical connecting peoples globally geography is such that 65% of people are eastern, 15% are north western, 15% are southern, and up to 5% are currently most impacted by climate making these geographically racist terms all but irrelevant

- you can ask of all these tools were they free or were they data collection systems -this is where we are in 2020- but wester media has faked this issue with its first comer advantages all the way to the banking scams of 2008- agian a western invention

but since usa has not got any examples of big data serving the people's sustainability goals, what has become washington dc's total abuse of asians who have piloted some solutions disgraces the 6 western members of the g8 who anyway were together with russia and japan the main actors of the colonial era of slavery, genocide and underclasses which ended in 2 world wars
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comparison of berners lee and eric yuan
while i hope eric does become one of the greatest billion-anthropists of all time, i am reminded of tim berners lee- the first to free all os because he never wanted to be a billionaire but wanted to hub out of a university - mit- which tried to keep all of us free

i am reminded of how the bbc in 2012 disgraced the whole english speaking world - instead of launching a curriculum from the london olympics of what did berners lee mean by the internet as i dreamed of it we have not seen it yet and not begun to app it to britain's greatest invention the national health service it gave somewhat less coverage to this than it did to particular gold medal winners - one reason why the bust olympics must be while designed by east if sports arts fashion are to free the lives matter generation as youth'd borderless movement

how did adam smith become first and only livesmatter economist

In adam smith's day there wasnt a lot of data crunching, you made system maps by thinking and sharing action modules with students.
google as at july 2020
Adam Smith (1723-1790) Adam Smith's exact date of birth is unknown, but he was baptised on 5 June 1723. His father, a customs officer in Kirkcaldy, died before he was born. He studied at Glasgow and Oxford Universities. (He also travelled to France to dialogue with Scot's auld allies - enlightenment/entrepreneurship were french passions about to question royal power across the continent of Europe)


Before he turned to markets and machines, adam had thought a lot about maps navigators shared about nature's diversity, about languages/cultures, faiths and ethical movements, legislatures, about health - after all london became the world's biggest capital when dick whittington relaunched financing of trade,property and royal interests after the black death.

Until 1760 adam's main contribution to markets was celebrating those community markets that are so transparent about prices and quality that it is in every sellers and buyers interest to multiply trust by being continuously improving what they did , focused, connected. Adam never said that humans found it easy to design free markets- he did say that all peoples should celebrate a market that did compound around consciously empowering productivity and goodwill multipliers.

Imagine just being ready to coach on the emotional intelligence of markets when  your co-worker James Watt at glasgow university shows you the first engine. Adam spent the rest his life on  world trade mapping in the coming era of humans  and machines. (Calendars show 2020s as 27th decade of humans and machines)

As a Scot, Adam had good reasons to question how a few upper class people  in london (out of a nation of less than  1% of world ;population and less than 1/1000  of natural resources had (from 1500-1760) designed their own global empire around currencies, warships, slavery, as well as english as science's publication language. Slowly at first but accelerating exponentially around the most eveil corporation (East india company) Britannia's empire was aiming to colonise pretty much the whole of populated asia (up to two thirds of human beings) as well as any useful east african trading regions en  route to asia from london. So from 1760 all his research sought to make the case for going west with a united states of english speaking machines and humans. Adam implored london to stop trying to colonise north america- britain should want to become a morally uniting  state of the english speaking world. By all means the united states  of machine world would be governed out of eg liberty's Philadelphia- because the continental resources of north america were thousands time more than the two islands  out of which English mindsets had sprung. However Adam posited one  essential condition before britain joined the union. Slavery should not just be repealed but every market sector whos working model spun round free or lowest cost labour should be redesigned with previous owners bought out at a fair sum if they felt unable to lead a lives matter industrial age.

Imagine if adams' idea had been adopted in time- no civil war needed in sua-each states new innovation could have been win-win as the usa mapped down  from new england through new amsterdam, across multicultural Philadelphia,  further down the east coast belt road across the french Louisana purchase  up through the heart land to michigan and illinois great lakes-canada could have joined in too -before the continuous push westwards (no need for genocide of natives) to what became the even more innovative west coast of usa as it faced asia pacific instead of the old atlantic pond. And then as american navies sailed west to hawaii and japan - instead of empire aggression they could have hosted entrepreneur competitions for ever more diverse applications of engines and machine intel. That was delayed because Japan scared by the aggressive american navy of late 1800s got the wrong idea- started  building its own aggressive navy to colonie asia from the far east just around the time that the brits were enforcing opium as the currency it insisted the chinese fifth of human beings accept for their wonderful spice , silks and artisan pottery

By 1945 two world wars had been fought because the colonial mercantile era amplified by the first 185 years of man and machines had been designed so that about 10% of peoples controled the lives and resources of about 85% of peoples with another 5% living in neutral lands. So when nations met at san francisco opera house in 1945 to unite it was a chance to re-map adam smiths livesmatter economic models. Keynes certainly implored this be done. Remember in 1945 economics was still an ideology for mapping systems, the amount of data crunching with abacus or slide ruler is quite constrained. This brings us to the 75 years 1945-2020 - what happened? How much time do we have to get back to sustainability economics systems starting eg with ones that value SHELF for every next child born, in any community anywhere on mother earth. Security Health Education Loveq Finance- if you want to understand SHELF models go fIrst to the 50 years of work of a reformed oil company enegineer and ceo - fazle abed who died dec 2019 left his 50 years of knowpow collaborations on  poorest village women rising for the world of sustainability students to action network around brac uni. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do-girls-networks-co-create-most-economic-value-chris-macrae/

amazon bezos alibaba jack ma

while amazon and alibaba have emerged since 1995 as the 2 largest shopping networks ever built, their founders had very different goals and very different building sequences - apart from the fact thyat jeff had to build everything facing urgent competition while jack ma had about 10 years to rehearse concepts and find partners - what are the top 10 differences -and which if either would make your peoles happier and more sustainably productive

1 for much of fist 10 years bezos had to make every next big bet by himself or with small team he trusted- financiers said his model was abnormal; academics said bricks would demolish clicks; there wasnt much room for asking what will happen to america's cities if over time most malls and big box retailers are beaten -and amazon becomes a defining phenomenon of the turn of the century-one specific first choice bezos made was books first- his idea if he could be the core of a supply and demand chain with as many different choices as books, then extending to almost any other category would be easy and economic

jack ma began with a different question - when webs and digital connectivity comes to china how can ecommerce be designed to maximise livelihoods and small enterrprise networking- one specific chpivce jack made - alibaba does not need to spend money on stocks- what we need to do is be the data algorith that every shipper wants to connect with

2 american markets had already been designed in many ways such finacial services to the disadvamtage of the poor and advantage of the rich- bezos had to work within those constraints- in china the people had never seen credit cards- there was an opportunity for jack ma to define digital financial trancations to the benefit of all the customers and traders in the system- moreover timing was such that cards werent needed-alipay would transfer payments mobile to mobile- this also meant that ant financial had more comploete data on who to trust in market both as buyer and seller- and this could fit with his livelihood and include villagers vision

3 amazon' journey shows how much more competitive us digital world was as well as how amazon had to adapt from assumption pc was main personal devive to smart phonres 13 years later
amazon needed to wait til dotcoms were disappearing before it went into other categories- meanwhile it needed to take on incumbents in book retail eg barnes and noble- eg launching audio book recorder
as amazon tarted to go into many categories, developing prime loyalty program made sense as did alexa ai assistant- amazo took over whole foods and bercame a leader in cloud services

mainly ma waited to after subprime mess and leapfrog to smarthpones making efinance arguably as big as ecommerce for ma-ma had chosen greatly synergetic funders and partenrs in jerry yang who saw how japan yahoo and alibaba could foit and masa son sotbank; ma designed 2 parallel ecommecre system taobao for smes and village integration- the mall for global brands and the largest ever one day shopping event

ma was always into cloud and data - he was also keeping his promise to youth and sme futures

 this suited china needs to support massive youth stsarups- by 2015 5 million startups weere launching around the BAT whise 3 ecosystems complemented each other

ma is an ebullient showman coming from an acting familyhttps://www.ewtp.org/documents.html

- he was in his element being sdg hoswt of china g20 putting hangzhou on the map in a way it hadnt been since marco polo and the silk road

from 2019 ma has gone back to his forst life teaching and is also un ambassadr for youth liverlihoods in the developing world- ma belives hal;f of youth everywhere will be unemployable unless we take schooling outsde classroom and eg make digital communiyty building apprenticeships accessible to all

4 its hard to compare everything but the way china's infrastructure is deesigned to include everyone it seems that deliveries are 3 or more times cheaper for everyone nojt just big aacounts of shipping-they are also faster and have made gps apps in china world leading in ways that can be surrprising to americans

hafl of all behavioral data ever collected emerged in 2010s with 100 timews more analytic capacity- in the far east governments study that, in america delegates are clueless- from this perspective bezos move to be dc-based may be 5 years too late- his persopnal facination with out of space races looks a waste compared with ma's focus on urgent sokutions we earthlings need- ma in 2020 has been in the middle of sharing with the world wuhan nurses handbook- bezos seems to be silent on this- its true that amazon is pledging to be carbon zero by 2040 but again you may interpret this as bezos focusing on what he controls not what communities need to empower- all of this needs reflecting on in terms of personal interactions - take for example americas 5 richest tech billionaire such as gates, zucenberg and above all bezos- do they have any coalition projects for community usa in general and education in particular- compare that with china's two ma's and robin li-

we try and make more detailed comparisons at www.alibabauni.com and www.amazonuni.com

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