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I don't think the "will-to-power" is absent at all. rather, the private sector is a better path to power for someone with technical chops, influencing through m
by leetcrew 5y ago
I don't think the "will-to-power" is absent at all. rather, the private sector is a better path to power for someone with technical chops, influencing through money instead of formal political authority. of course by the time you have this much money, your interests tend to diverge from the frontline engineers.
- javajosh 5y agoIt's only a theoretical path to political power, though. There are no examples that I know of, at least in the US, of a tech entrepreneur or scientist successfully running for office. I think Woodrow Wilson was a professor, and he was a disastrous president (and notably very racist). Yes, the money can buy influence over power, but not obtain power itself. And if Citizen's United is ever legislated against (and it should be) even that influence will be limited.