Seriously though. I think we'd all be much better off if most or all of the lawyers in government were replaced with engineers, and the language and mechanisms

Seriously though. I think we'd all be much better off if most or all of the lawyers in government were replaced with engineers, and the language and mechanisms of laws changed to reflect that. Then, if something didn't achieve its expected outcome (take your pick of well-meaning programs across the political spectrum that didn't return on their promises), it would be seen as a bug requiring a fix as opposed to a matter of ideology to be spun into a success by countless PR firms. It would also be nice to have a group of people who collectively have no respect for large incumbent corporations at the helm of this country. I firmly believe that any manifestation of the state necessitates somebody getting fd, but in this scenario it would be an entirely different set of people and in new and interesting ways. I'm all for it.