Even in the early stages when Beer was first retained as a consultant, people had been warning the Allende government that it was nationalising things too fast, without regard for the capacity to manage them, and seemingly without much in the way of an overall industrial plan. They had introduced a system of âintervenorsâ who sat in the factories and passed on orders from central government; this was unpopular, and contributed to the impression of central technocratic control rather than devolved autonomous production.