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Agreed. An elected politician, no matter what background, can't really be a technocrat.

• culi 5y ago
  I mean, hypothetically, there could be ways to merge technocracy and democracy. People could vote on a selection of top experts for example. Or perhaps people could vote for what technical background they think is most important for a position and experts of those backgrounds are automatically assigned to the role Just some ideas
  • mongol 5y ago
    Yes good points. If a specialist background is required for election, you get some degree of technocracy into it.
    • qwytw 5y ago
      Also an easy way to legally prohibit people belonging to undesired social groups or races to hold elected office.
      • culi 5y ago
        very true! Another reason technocracy has often been historically closely linked with eugenics
  • qwytw 5y ago
    So basically a government funded committee would decide who gets appointed to any public office. Alternatively we can just select a random person with a relevant bacgkround/degree..